ABSTRACT
While the studies presented in this book focus on guardianship at the microlevel of residential properties and street-segments, this supplement will present some interesting comparisons between the responses from residents about their supervision and intervention practices and macro-level neighbourhood characteristics that seem to be linked with micro-level residential guardianship. This supplement will focus on the role that the neighbourhood context plays in residential guardianship as it is expressed through residents’ willingness to monitor and their decision to intervene. These analyses will be descriptive in nature as it is beyond the purview of this book to speculate about the effect that macro-level neighbourhood processes have on micro-level residential guardianship techniques. Nevertheless, the superficial comparison that will be presented reveals some interesting and expected trends. In Chapter 8, context emerged as an important variable in the monitoring capabilities of residents as it determined not only their willingness to engage in the supervision of their surroundings but also their ability to detect potential offenders in their surroundings. The findings from Chapter 9 lent further validation to these results as they confirmed that residents’ decisions to supervise and to intervene when necessary were both either directly or indirectly affected by their perception of their residential context. With these results collectively revealing the important contribution made by the residential context in determining residents’ capability to guard against crime, the current supplement will explore the ways in which fundamental neighbourhood characteristics are linked to reported supervision and intervention practices by residents.
