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From Private Nuisance to Criminal Behaviour: Neighbour Problems and Neighbourhood Context in an Australian City

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  • Lynda Cheshire
  • Robin Fitzgerald

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The problems that arise between neighbours have not received the academic scrutiny they deserve despite neighbour problems and disputes appearing to be a growing phenomenon. In this paper, we begin to address this omission by examining the kinds of problems residents in the city of Brisbane, Australia, are likely to encounter with neighbours and identifying patterns in their distribution on the basis of neighbourhood characteristics. Making a distinction between private nuisance problems on the one hand and antisocial and criminal behaviour on the other hand, we observe how neighbourhood levels of concentrated disadvantage, residential mobility and population density all increase the chances of residents encountering a combination of nuisance and antisocial or criminal neighbour problems over nuisance problems only or no problems at all. Conversely, a higher concentration of foreign-born residents is found to be associated with residents being more likely to experience nuisance or no problems over more criminal and antisocial forms.

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  • Lynda Cheshire & Robin Fitzgerald, 2015. "From Private Nuisance to Criminal Behaviour: Neighbour Problems and Neighbourhood Context in an Australian City," Housing Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(1), pages 100-122, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:chosxx:v:30:y:2015:i:1:p:100-122
    DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.933783
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    1. Yung Yau, 2020. "Direct and Indirect Impacts of Housing Tenure Mix on Antisocial Behavior: A Study of Hong Kong’s Private Housing Communities," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 9(7), pages 1-15, July.
    2. Laurence, James, 2019. "Community disadvantage, inequalities in adolescent subjective well-being, and local social relations: The role of positive and negative social interactions," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 237(C), pages 1-1.
    3. Lynda Cheshire & Robin Fitzgerald & Yan Liu, 2019. "Neighbourhood change and neighbour complaints: How gentrification and densification influence the prevalence of problems between neighbours," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(6), pages 1093-1112, May.

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