{"id":1980,"date":"2010-10-01T08:12:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T13:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2010-10-01T08:12:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T13:12:24","slug":"stores-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2010\/10\/01\/stores-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Stores &amp; Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by keepps on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93799798@N00\/5041373820\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4151\/5041373820_f7c30d76af_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"PA010049\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>How do businesses\u00a0affect neighborhood crime rates?\u00a0\u00a0Some people would answer this question by asserting that the increased foot traffic that businesses bring to neighborhoods translates into more eyes to curb crime.\u00a0 According to others, residents withdraw into their homes to avoid crowds, which could make crimes more likely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To test these opposing ideas, Christopher Browning and his Ohio State colleagues examined 1999-2001 rates of homicide, aggravated assault and robbery in 184 census tracts in Columbus, Ohio; and <a href=\"http:\/\/psychcentral.com\/news\/2010\/09\/26\/violent-crime-less-frequent-in-neighborhoods-with-businesses\/18622.html\">Psych Central News <\/a>reported on their findings.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Neighborhoods that combine residential and business developments have lower levels of some types of violent crime[homocide and aggravated assault]\u2026The findings were equally true in impoverished areas as they were in more affluent neighborhoods, possibly offering city planners and politicians a new option in improving crime-afflicted areas, according to the researchers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But, neighborhood density also plays a role.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In sparsely populated neighborhoods, increases in business-residential density initially lead to more frequent violent crimes.\u00a0 However, once the building density reached a certain threshold, certain types of violent crime began to decline.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Christopher Browning put it, \u201cA residential neighborhood needs more than the addition of one or two businesses to see any positive impact on violent crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The researchers are hopeful that bringing businesses into neighborhoods could help cut back on some violent crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do businesses\u00a0affect neighborhood crime rates?\u00a0\u00a0Some people would answer this question by asserting that the increased foot traffic that businesses bring to neighborhoods translates into more eyes to curb crime.\u00a0 According to others, residents withdraw into their homes to avoid crowds, which could make crimes more likely.\u00a0 To test these opposing ideas, Christopher Browning and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[39116,175,125],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-crime","tag-sociology","tag-urban"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1988,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}