Neighborhood Effects on Crime and Youth Violence: The Role of Business Improvement Districts in Los Angeles
Publication year:
2009
| Cataloged on:
Feb. 17, 2009
ANNOTATION: This report "examines whether residing in neighborhoods exposed to BIDs [business improvement districts] reduces a youth's risk to neighborhood violence and improves the overall social environment of one's neighborhood compared to living in similarly situated neighborhoods not exposed to BIDs" ( (p. iii). In addition to a summary, this report has six chapters: introduction; budgetary and organizational characteristics of BIDs; observations of BIDs; family, individual, and community effects on youth violence; analysis of BID on reported violent crime; and conclusions. There appears to be no clear reduction of youth violence associated with BIDs.