ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides a broader theoretical context for thinking about processes linked to incivilities and to the impacts of incivilities. It focuses on the connections between neighborhood structure and incivilities and between structure and outcomes. The book considers incivility reduction from local leaders' perspectives, grounding that investigation in a well-supported model linking community structure with different types of prevention efforts. It discusses longitudinal changes in neighborhood names and boundaries and viewed those findings in the contexts of other work on place stratification and the organization of police work. The book considers some broad implications for policies of police-community coproduction and neighborhood preservation, as well as some theoretical implications. Current efforts across the country by community policing officers and problem-solving police officers receive justification in part from the longitudinal, ecological version of the decline and disorder, or broken windows, thesis.
