街头宠物:养狗家庭的邻里级集中分布与城市犯罪
Paws on the Street: Neighborhood-Level Concentration of Households with Dogs and Urban Crime.
作者信息
Pinchak Nicolo P, Browning Christopher R, Boettner Bethany, Calder Catherine A, Tarrence Jake
机构信息
Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA, Institute for Population Research, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
Institute for Population Research, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
出版信息
Soc Forces. 2022 Jun 25;101(4):1888-1917. doi: 10.1093/sf/soac059. eCollection 2023 Apr.
The formative work of Jane Jacobs underscores the combination of "eyes on the street" and trust between residents in deterring crime. Nevertheless, little research has assessed the effects of residential street monitoring on crime due partly to a lack of data measuring this process. We argue that neighborhood-level rates of households with dogs captures part of the residential street monitoring process core to Jacobs' hypotheses and test whether this measure is inversely associated with property and violent crime rates. Data from a large-scale marketing survey of Columbus, OH, USA residents (2013; = 43,078) are used to measure census block group-level ( = 595) rates of households with dogs. Data from the Adolescent Health and Development in Context study are used to measure neighborhood-level rates of trust. Consistent with Jacobs' hypotheses, results indicate that neighborhood concentration of households with dogs is inversely associated with robbery, homicide, and, to a less consistent degree, aggravated assault rates within neighborhoods high in trust. In contrast, results for property crime suggest that the inverse association of dog concentration is independent of levels of neighborhood trust. These associations are observed net of controls for neighborhood sociodemographic characteristics, temporally lagged crime, and spatial lags of trust and dog concentration. This study offers suggestive evidence of crime deterrent benefits of local street monitoring and dog presence and calls attention to the contribution of pets to other facets of neighborhood social organization.
简·雅各布斯的开创性著作强调了“街道目光”与居民之间的信任相结合对遏制犯罪的作用。然而,由于缺乏衡量这一过程的数据,很少有研究评估住宅街道监控对犯罪的影响。我们认为,养狗家庭在社区层面的比例体现了雅各布斯假设中住宅街道监控过程的核心部分,并检验这一指标是否与财产犯罪率和暴力犯罪率呈负相关。来自美国俄亥俄州哥伦布市居民的大规模营销调查(2013年;样本量 = 43,078)的数据用于衡量普查街区组层面(样本量 = 595)养狗家庭的比例。来自“情境中的青少年健康与发展”研究的数据用于衡量社区层面的信任度。与雅各布斯的假设一致,结果表明,在信任度高的社区中,养狗家庭的社区集中度与抢劫、杀人犯罪率呈负相关,与严重攻击犯罪率的负相关程度较低。相比之下,财产犯罪的结果表明,养狗集中度的负相关与社区信任水平无关。这些关联在控制了社区社会人口特征、时间滞后犯罪以及信任度和养狗集中度的空间滞后因素后仍然存在。本研究为当地街道监控和养狗对犯罪的威慑作用提供了有启发性的证据,并提请人们关注宠物对社区社会组织其他方面的贡献。