Contents

• Introduction and overview
• Explaining crime hotspots : overview and extensions of broken windows and collective efficacy theories
• Here’s the neighborhood : a video ethnographic tour of Grand Boulevard, 2000
• Perceived sources of neighborhood disorder
• Where’s the dope at? : the need to understand drug dealing from the ground up
• "I want it, I see it, I take it" : the robbery hotspots
• "That’s the way we grew up" : the battery hotspots
• What this all means : summary, conclusions, and implications
• Appendix A: Methodological appendix
• Appendix B: Recent trends in research on broken windows
• Appendix C: Recent trends in research on collective efficacy