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Housing, Community and Crime

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Crime and the City

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There is growing evidence that residents in areas of unpopular public-sector Council housing suffer from disproportionate levels of crime and other forms of social abuse. Many studies of run-down housing have been made by criminologists, sociologists, geographers, historians, architects and other social researchers in an attempt to establish direct cause and effect in the relationship between housing areas and crime, or housing areas, poverty and crime (Baldwin and Bottoms, 1976, pp. 99–181).

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  1. Anne Power
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  1. Professor of Social Administration, London School of Economics, England

    David Downes (Professor) (Professor)

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Power, A. (1989). Housing, Community and Crime. In: Downes, D. (eds) Crime and the City. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09304-5_9

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