ABSTRACT
This chapter considers incivilities from the community perspective. It sketches in the broader context to see how the links between efforts and rationales depend on the community structure and the nature of the local crime problem. The chapter summarizes Podolefsky's model, describing two types of collective responses and how those responses emerge from the community fabric by way of community views about crime and related social problems. It details collective responses in different types of neighborhoods. Neighborhoods are reviewed in the following order: those adopting almost exclusively a victimization prevention strategy; those where victimization prevention predominates, but social problem reduction strategies also play a role; those adopting almost exclusively a social problem reduction approach; and finally, those with a mixed approach, but where a social problem reduction orientation predominates. The chapter examines whether, and if so in what ways, the original model addresses some new features of collective responses.
