Neighborhood Watch - Who Watches Whom? Reinterpreting the Concept of Neighborhood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2499433 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eve Darian-Smith (0000-0002-1971-0323, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83-88 |
| Publication date | 1993-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/humo.52.1.bq028r50g21445u3 |
| OpenAlex | W2021979584 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 13 |
This paper analyzes the Australian and American experiences in Neighborhood Watch community policing schemes. Neighborhood Watch, as a method of social control endorsed by the state, is supported and run solely by volunteers, and so provides a focus to discuss the more subtle meanings and processes of symbolic contestation among state, community, and individual. This paper attempts to show why the community upholds the dominance of formalized law as an ideology, despite the law's proven inadequacies to maintain social control. It also examines how the symbolic concept of
Control (management) · Criminology · Dominance (genetics) · Focus (optics) · Ideology · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Social control · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · The Symbolic · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology
Citizenship and Identity in the Age of Surveillance
Vecinas ≠ neighbours
Vecinas ≠ neighbours
The acquisition of legitimacy for civilian policing
Environmental factors and sense of community in a planned town
Seeing Like a Neighbor
The Visual and Sonic Registers of Neighbourhood Estrangement
The Difference that Citizenship Makes
The Politics of informal justice
Law as Process
Subculture
Right, Rage, and Remedy
Feasible Regulation for Democracy and Social Justice
Neighborhoods in Transition
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
Regulating Contradictions
Ideological Production
Community Justice, Capitalist Society, and Human Agency
Legal Pluralism
Power and power analysis
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2023 (28) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |