@article{ref1,
title="Community social organization as a predictor of mortality: analyzing Chicago neighborhoods",
journal="Crime prevention and community safety",
year="2006",
author="Feinberg, Seth L.",
volume="8",
number="3",
pages="150-168",
abstract="This research explores the relationship between community social organization and neighborhood rates of mortality. Community social organization is a latent term that captures a variety of social interactions between residents that bring individuals together, providing an opportunity for a collective response to perceived neighborhood problems. Drawing from social disorganization theory, I suggest that more efficacious communities should have lower rates of mortality, particularly for youth. Using survey and secondary data for Chicago neighborhoods, I find that social organization (measured as collective efficacy) has a strong protective effect in terms of reducing youth death rates. The impact of collective efficacy holds for both preventable and health-related youth mortality. Results suggest that neighbors may contribute to protecting the lives of youth by helping mobilize residents to engage in community social organization.<p />",
language="",
issn="1460-3780",
doi="10.1057/palgrave.cpcs.8150023",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.cpcs.8150023"
}