Examining and designing community crime prevention technology
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Sheena Lewis
- Source
- CHI Extended Abstracts
- Subject
- ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION
business.industry
Crime prevention
Cultural criminology
Ethnography
Online content analysis
Joint (building)
Community policing
Sociology
Public relations
Collective action
business
Doctoral research
- Language
My doctoral research examines how middle and low socio-economic communities use technology to address crime. To accomplish this, I have conducted ethnographic fieldwork at joint meetings with Chicago communities and police for the past year. I have also conducted an online content analysis where I have collected over 7000 online crime forum posts that are neighborhood-specific dating back to 2004. The results of my research will inform the design of community crime prevention technologies.