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Peer reviewedPattillo, Mary E. – Social Forces, 1998
Ethnographic data from a black middle-class Chicago neighborhood indicate that dense social networks fostered by residential stability facilitate informal supervision of neighborhood youth and enhance formal crime-prevention activities. Nevertheless, inclusion of gang members and drug dealers in networks of law-abiding kin and neighbors thwarts…
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Youth, Crime Prevention, Ethnography
