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Participation and the social and physical environment of residential blocks: Crime and community context

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  1. Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah, 84112, Salt Lake City, Utah

    Douglas D. Perkins

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island, USA

    Paul Florin

  3. Department of Political Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia, USA

    Richard C. Rich

  4. Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, South Carolina, USA

    Abraham Wandersman

  5. School of Social Work, Rutgers University, USA

    David M. Chavis

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Portions of this paper are based on the first author's unpublished dissertation in Community Psychology at New York University. The data are part of the Block Booster Project funded by the Ford Foundation and amdinistered by the Citizens Committee for New York City. The authors thank Barbara J. Felton, Kenneth Heller, David V. Perkins, Kenneth A. Perkins, Richard H. Price, Julian Rappaport, Marybeth Shinn, Ralph B. Taylor, and Marc A. Zimmerman for their valuable comments on earlier versions of this paper. The dissertation was supported by the Graduate Research Fellowship Program of the National Institute of Justice and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Research Grant-In-Aid Program.

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Perkins, D.D., Florin, P., Rich, R.C. et al. Participation and the social and physical environment of residential blocks: Crime and community context. Am J Commun Psychol 18, 83–115 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00922690

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