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Weeding Criminals or Planting Fear: An Evaluation of a Weed and Seed Project
Blaine Bridenball,Paul Jesilow +1 more
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In this article, the authors employed a quasi-experimental design to test the effect of a weed and seed program in a Santa Ana, California, neighborhood and found that the program may have had the unintended consequence of enhancing citizens' fears of gang activity and crime.Abstract:
This study employed a quasi-experimental design to test the effect of a “Weed and Seed” program in a Santa Ana, California, neighborhood. The authors were specifically interested in learning how it affected the residents’attitudes about their neighborhood and their fear of crime. Interviews were conducted before and after a major “gang sweep” and Seeding in a targeted community. The results of the analyses failed to reveal any positive effects of the program on residents’ attitudes and may have had the unintended consequence of enhancing citizens’ fears of gang activity and crime.read more
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Crime prevention and active living.
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Latina Spaces: Middle–Class Ethnic Capital and Professional Associations in the Latino Community:
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School Resource Officers and Students’ Feelings of Safety at School
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TL;DR: The number of school resource officers (SRO) placed at schools has increased dramatically as mentioned in this paper and these officers are tasked with making schools safer, yet the effect of interacting with SROs on students'...
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