TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Spuriousness or mediation? Broken windows according to Sampson and Raudenbush (1999)
JO  - Journal of criminal justice
A1  - Gault, Martha
A1  - Silver, Eric
SP  - 240
EP  - 243
VL  - 36
IS  - 3
N2  - In 1999, Sampson and Raudenbush published an influential article in the American Sociological Review on the link between disorder and crime in urban neighborhoods. The present article offers a reinterpretation of their 1999 article based on the contentions that: (1) their interpretation of the broken windows thesis is imprecise, and (2) there is an alternative interpretation of their findings that was not considered. Based on these contentions, and contrary to Sampson and Raudenbush's (1999) assertions, the authors conclude that the results of Sampson and Raudenbush's study are not inconsistent with the broken windows thesis and therefore should not be used as empirical evidence against it.<p />
LA  - 
SN  - 0047-2352
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2008.04.004
ID  - ref1
ER  -