Urban Unease Revisited - Perceptions of Local Safety and Neighborhood Satisfaction Among Metropolitan Residents

• NCJ Number: 81006
• Journal: Social Science Quarterly Volume: 62 Issue: 4 Dated: (December, 1981) Pages: 611-629
• Author(s): B A Lee
• Date Published: 1981
• Length: 19 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: An abbreviated version of this paper was presented at the 76th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association held in Toronto in August 1981.

Annotation

A review of the literature and a secondary analysis of Annual Housing Survey data offer support for three of five hypotheses drawn from Wilson's urban unease argument.

Abstract

Results confirm the important influence of perceived safety on underclass residents' levels of neighborhood satisfaction, although a simple 'failure of community' explanation appears inadequate to account for the pattern of findings. (Author abstract)