Housing, Community and Crime

There is growing evidence that residents in areas of unpopular public-sector Council housing suffer from disproportionate levels of crime and other forms of social abuse. Many studies of run-down housing have been made by criminologists, sociologists, geographers, historians, architects and other social researchers in an attempt to establish direct cause and effect in the relationship between housing areas and crime, or housing areas, poverty and crime (Baldwin and Bottoms, 1976, pp. 99–181). These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.