The relationship between neighborhood physical environment and social disorder, particularly crime, is of critical … interventions to improve physical conditions in distressed neighborhoods have also been heralded for their potential to reduce crime … negative spillovers — including crime — on surrounding neighborhoods. In this paper, we investigate the impact of NSP …

Does crime in a neighborhood cause future crime? Without a source of quasi-experimental variation in local crime, we … crimes cause more severe crimes. This suggests that a range of crime reduction policies that target lighter crimes … (prescribed, for instance, by the “broken windows” theory of crime) should not be credited with reducing the violent crime rate …

1986 and 1998, we find strong evidence that gang crime rates in the neighbourhood at assignment increase the probability of … boys to commit crimes before the age of 19, and that gang crime (but not other crime) increases the likelihood of teenage … motherhood for girls. Higher levels of gang crime also have detrimental and long-lasting effects, with men experiencing …

1986 and 1998, we find strong evidence that gang crime rates in the neighbourhood at assignment increase the probability of … boys to commit crimes before the age of 19, and that gang crime (but not other crime) increases the likelihood of teenage … motherhood for girls. Higher levels of gang crime also have detrimental and long-lasting effects, with men experiencing …