Peaceful lockout: crime in gated communities.

• Author: Bailey, Ronald
• Position: Citings - Brief article

SEVEN MILLION American households, about 6 percent of the nation's population, live in gated communities, often in the hope of avoiding crime. A recent study suggests that gated communities do in fact serve that function, at least with respect to burglaries.

In the Spring 2013 issue of Justice Quarterly, two criminologists, Lynn Addington of American University and Callie Marie Rennison of the University of Colorado in Denver, consider data from the National Crime Victimization Survey for 2009 and 2010."All other things being equal," they report, "households in gated...