Broken windows or window dressing? Citizens'(in) ability to tell the difference between disorder and crime

By Jacinta M. Gau, Travis C. Pratt. 2008

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Revisiting Broken Windows Theory: Examining the Sources of the Discriminant Validity of Perceived Disorder and Crime (2010, methodology): “To this end, recent research has shown that disorder and crime have either marginal discriminant validity (Armstrong & Katz, 2010; Worrall, 2006a) or none at all (Gau & Pratt, 2008).”
A longitudinal analysis of citizens' attitudes about police (2010, methodology): “A prior study using the original data set probed for nonresponse bias and found no evidence of a problem (Gau and Pratt, 2008).”
Procedural justice, police legitimacy, and legal cynicism: a test for mediation effects (2015, background): “The between-factor correlation was .718, which is high but not so strong as to suggest an absence of discriminant validity (see Gau & Pratt, 2008; Gomez, Burns, Walsh, & Hafetz, 2002).”
Procedural Justice and Order Maintenance Policing: A Study of Inner‐City Young Men’s Perceptions of Police Legitimacy (2010, background): “Even more research has raised questions regarding whether disorder actually exists as an independent phenomenon or whether it is, instead, part-and-parcel to crime itself (Gau & Pratt, 2008; Sampson & Raudenbush, 1999; Worrall, 2006b).”
Fear of Crime, Incivilities, and Collective Efficacy in Four Miami Neighborhoods (2013, background): “Although there is some concern regarding the discriminant validity of measures of perceptions of incivilities (see Armstrong & Katz, 2009; Gau & Pratt, 2008, 2010; Worrall, 2007), research suggests that individual perceptions of incivilities have important impacts on fear of crime, net of…”
An Examination of the Micro-Level Crime–Fear of Crime Link (2015, background): “The second dimension often focuses on a state of carelessness such as abandoned buildings, kids running around, and so on (Gau & Pratt, 2008).”
Trust in the Police (2015, background): “…participants to indicate how much of a problem a series of disorder related activities were in their neighborhood (i.e., garbage, excessive noise, vandalism, drunk drivers, traffic problems, public drunkenness, drug use and sales, loitering, and youth gangs; see, for example, Gau & Pratt, 2008).”