St. Jean, P. K. B. (2007). Pockets of Crime: Broken Windows, Collective Efficacy, and the Criminal Point of View. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. [YOU CAN SKIP CHAPTER 7 ABOUT BATTERY]
How would you describe the neighborhood where the research took place?
What were St. Jean's major data sources?
What are his main conclusions about the roles of a) collective efficacy, b) incivilities and c) non residential land use variations
Summarize the locational needs described by the drug dealers.(Later, when you have the time, compare these descriptions to: Eck, J. (1995). A general model of illicit retail marketplaces. Crime and Place. J. Eck and D. Weisburd. NY, Criminal Justice Press. 4: 67-93.)
Summarize the locational needs described by robbers.
What do you think are his most important findings? Why?
What do you think are his most important policy implications? Why?
Were the groups of wineheads a social incivility or local informal control?
What references does he cite when he says researchers think crime is evenly spread out in high crime neighborhoods?