Sean P Varano: 2 books
Looking Beyond Suppression
Community Strategies to Reduce Gang Violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
This edited book significantly contributes to the knowledge on how to address gang problems from a broad community perspective, which takes into account criminal justice agencies, social service providers, and community leaders, along with police, who have implemented collaborative anti-gang policies...
Community, Crime Control, and Collective Efficacy
Neighborhoods and Crime in Miami
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Collective efficacy is a neighborhood-level concept in which community members create a sense of agency and assume ownership for the state of their local community. This concept is one of several forms of formal and informal social control that predict the overall functioning of a community. In this...