Paws on the Street: Neighborhood-Level Concentration of Households with Dogs and Urban Crime.

ABSTRACT: The formative work of Jane Jacobs underscores the combination of "eyes on the street" and trust between residents in deterring crime. Nevertheless, little research has assessed the effects of residential street monitoring on crime due partly to a lack of data measuring this process. We argue that neighborhood-level rates of households with dogs captures part of the residential street monitoring process core to Jacobs' hypotheses and test whether this measure is inversely associated with property and violent crime rates. Data from a large-scale marketing survey of Columbus, OH, USA residents (2013; n = 43,078) are used to measure census block group-level (n = 595) rates of households with dogs. Data from the Adolescent Health and Development in Context study are used to measur

SUBMITTER: Pinchak NP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10106924 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature