A Test of Social Disorganization Theory in High-Risk Urban Neighborhoods

By Beverly Kingston, D. Huizinga, D. Elliott. 2009

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The Relationship Between Citizen Perceptions of Collective Efficacy and Neighborhood Violent Crime (2015, methodology): “In contrast, the measure of social cohesion (different from both the measures used by Sampson et al., 1997, and the present study) used by Kingston et al. (2009) was related to property to offending but not violent offending.”
COLLECTIVE EFFICACY, DEPRIVATION AND VIOLENCE IN LONDON (2013, result): “That said, there have been some contrary results in other contexts (e.g. Kingston et al., 2009; Cerdá et al., forthcoming; Villareal and Silva, 2006) and although a recent meta-analysis by Pratt and Cullen (2005) found that collective efficacy appeared to be an important concept in the…”