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Housing policies often promote homeownership in order to stabilise a given urban neighbourhood, assuming that … their attitudes towards disorder, collective efficacy and social control. Results indicate significant differences between … these groups: owners perceive more social control and more social capital in the neighbourhood and less disorder. The policy …
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Keizer et al. (2008) explore disorderly settings linked to a process of spreading norm violation. The results show that if norm violating behavior becomes more common, it negatively affects compliance in other areas. This comment addresses problematic areas in their studies and provides new...
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Housing policies often promote homeownership in order to stabilise a given urban neighbourhood, assuming that … their attitudes towards disorder, collective efficacy and social control. Results indicate significant differences between … these groups: owners perceive more social control and more social capital in the neighbourhood and less disorder. The policy …
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laws of physics and economic laws were discovered and not invented. Some authors put an equal sign between the disorder … (entropy) and chaos, others on the contrary are making differences between the two concepts, but both consider an unpredictable …
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Keizer et al. (2008) explore disorderly settings linked to a process of spreading norm violation. The results show that if norm violating behavior becomes more common, it negatively affects compliance in other areas. This comment addresses problematic areas in their studies and provides new...
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We conduct a field experiment to examine whether the deterrent effect of law enforcement depends on the salience of law enforcement activity. Our focus is on illegal disposal of household garbage in residential areas. At a random subset of 56 locations in a mid-sized city, law enforcement...
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We conduct a field experiment to examine whether the deterrent effect of law enforcement can be strengthened by making law enforcement activities more salient. Our focus is on illegal disposal of household garbage in residential areas. At a random subset of 56 locations in a city in the...
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