<div dir="ltr">Thanks for following up on this subject after the meeting, Courtney, and thanks for the link.<br><br>Here is a short, concise summary of a study of the effectiveness of Neighborhood Watch programs. Results are mixed and not very encouraging when it comes to crime reduction. There may be other benefits, however, such as community building that results from formalizing shared responsibility and a sense of mutuality. I didn't find a study about that, but didn't look very hard either. <br><div><div><br><a href="https://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/criminal-justice/us-justice-department-neighborhood-watch-reduce-crime">https://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/criminal-justice/us-justice-department-neighborhood-watch-reduce-crime</a><br><br></div><div>Jane<br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 7:46 PM, Lawrence Assoc of Neighborhoods via Electronic-lan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:electronic-lan@lists.ku.edu" target="_blank">electronic-lan@lists.ku.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px">Good Afternoon!</span><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">At the last meeting several people expressed interest in the neighborhood watch program. Here is the link:</div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px"><a href="http://police.lawrenceks.org/content/neighborhood-watch" target="_blank">http://police.lawrenceks.org/c<wbr>ontent/neighborhood-watch</a><br></div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">For those who do pursue the creation of neighborhood watch please feel free to come to a monthly LAN meeting and update us on your progress. </div><div style="font-size:13px">Sincerely, Courtney Shipley co-chair</div></div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana;font-size:12px;color:#000000"><b>MARK YOUR CALENDARS! <br><br>78th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana;font-size:12px;color:#000000"><b>April 3-7, 2018</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana;font-size:12px;color:#000000"><b>Loews Philadelphia Hotel</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana;font-size:12px;color:#000000"><b>Program Chair: Prof. Carla Guerrón Montero</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana;font-size:12px;color:#000000"><b>Program Theme: Sustainable Futures</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Verdana;font-size:12px;color:#000000">The theme for the meeting may be viewed at:</span></div>
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<br><br>Jane W. Gibson</div><div>Associate Professor</div><div>Department of Anthropology</div><div>630 Fraser Hall</div><div>University of Kansas  </div><div>Lawrence, Kansas 66045</div><div>785-864-2635<br></div><div><a href="mailto:jwgc@ku.edu" target="_blank">jwgc@ku.edu</a><br></div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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