Community Mobilization Against Urban Crime

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Periodically, crime becomes a prominent issue in the politics of cities. In the past, politicians, police officials, and the media elevated crime to public and political agenda status for their own purposes. Increasingly, however, grassroots activists are raising crime as an issue and are organizing to cope with it in their communities. The type and posture of these organizations differ significantly. The postures that anticrime activists adopt are largely decided by their perspectives toward (1) the legitimacy of governmental authority and (2) their sense of efficacy. These guiding orientations lead activists to fall into four basic categories that are labeled Negotiational, Adversarial, Delegational, and Alienated.

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