Neighbourhood control by criminals

With the social crisis of urban environments, and the rise of criminality, local communities are increasingly becoming the territories of criminal gangs in which people can be killed indiscriminately and without provocation.

1. Organized crime
2. Locales of high crime rates

1. Fear blocking participation
2. Crime reduces profitability
3. Crime deters improvement

1. Psychological stress of urban environment
2. Protection rackets
3. Prevailing community insecurity

1. Youth gangs
2. Urban poverty
3. Uninvolved transient residents
4. Ineffective legislation against organized crime
5. Inadequate police funds
6. Inadequate community policing
7. Fragmented social care at the neighbourhood level

1. Impoverished social environment

1. Self-control
2. Nonlocal
3. Crime