.Development of a generic model for crime ridden neighborhood

Subject Areas : Urban Sociological Studies

Mostafa Ejtehadi ¹ , Salahaldin Qaderi ² , Farshid Khezri ³

1 - Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistant professor, Department of Sociology, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Ph.D. student, Department of Sociology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2019-12-23 Accepted : 2019-12-23 Published : 2019-11-22

Keywords: neighborhood, crime producing neighborhoods, Exterior structures of the neighborhood, Neighborhood structural characteristics, Causal mechanisms,

Abstract :

The existence of numerous theories and studies about crime at the level of neighborhood, despite having positive points, suffers from certain kinds of reductionism and ambiguity. Many of these studies have focused on social, economic, cultural and environmental variables as the prime causes of crime, and have not systematically studied crime at the neighborhood level. Also, theories and studies that have tried to provide a more integrated model for crime analysis at the neighborhood level are still not well suited to combining different levels and dimensions. The purpose of this paper was to present a multidimensional and multilevel model emphasizing the causal factors and mechanisms for explaining crime at the neighborhood level. Without attempting to present a theory, this article tries to provide a comprehensive model for community-based crime studies by reviewing existing theories on social, cultural, economic and environmental dimensions and combining them. The article tries to increase the explanatory power of neighborhood and crime studies. The success rate of this goal is conditional on testing this model using data within and between neighborhoods and also on being criticized by researchers in this area. The model presented in this paper is a multidimensional and multilevel model in which it attempts to combine the external and internal characteristics of the neighborhood with the power of collective and individual actors to explain the crime.

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