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3 Crim. Just. 5 (2003)

handle is hein.journals/crmcj3 and id is 1 raw text is: ARTICLES Criminal justice Q 2003 SAGE Publications London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi. 1466-8025(200302) 3:1; Vol. 3(1): 5-27; 030453 Perceived collective efficacy and women's victimization in public housing WALTER S. DEKESEREDY, MARTIN D. SCHWARTZ, SHAHID ALVI AND E. ANDREAS TOMASZEWSKI Ohio University, Ohio University, University of St. Thomas and Eastern Michigan University Abstract Although it has not yet been applied to domestic violence and other types of crime in Canadian public housing, the social disorganization/collective efficacy model described in this article may help explain why people who live in such areas characterized by poverty and joblessness report higher rates of intimate partner violence and several other offenses than those living in more affluent communities. Using data generated by the Quality of Neighborhood Life Survey, a main objective of the Canadian study described here was to test this model. One of the most important findings is that community concerns about street crimes and informal means of social control designed to prevent such harms are not effective forms of alleviating intimate partner violence in public housing. Key Words Canada * community * housing * victimization * women It is not unusual even for those close to the scene to presume that domestic violence rates are low in public housing complexes, because, as Raphael quotes one social worker, 'the women in public housing projects actually live alone with their children and men aren't allowed to be there' (2001: 5