Community Perceptions about Prison Construction: Why Not in My Backyard?  

Oleh:

Martin, Randy

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Prison Journal vol. 80 no. 3 (Sep. 2000), page 265-294.
Topik: prison construction; literature on locally unwanted land use; LULU; the not in my backyard syndrome; NIMBY
Fulltext: 265TPJ803.pdf (116.23KB)

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The image portrayed in literature is that communities express strong resistance to and negative attitudes about the introduction of a prison. Such claims, however, have not been supported with systematically collected data. A survey was administered to 3,795 residents of a county in which the construction of a new prison had just begun. Residents from throughout the county were asked to indicate their expectations about the impact of the prison on their community. Contrary to the literature, it was found that the majority of the 1,659 respondents were, at worst, neutral in their overall perceptions about the prison’s likely impact. This article describes the results of this survey and examines them within the context of the literature on locally unwanted land use (LULU) and the not in my backyard (NIMBY) syndrome.

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