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This book introduces the foundations of multilevel models, using Monopoly® rent data from the classic board game, and the statistical program Stata®. Widespread experience with the game means many readers have a head start on understanding these models.

Territorial functioning' refers to an interlocked system of sentiments, cognitions, and behaviors that are highly place-specific, and socially and culturally determined and maintaining.

Those involved in urban neighborhood and community research with an applied focus will find in this volume a number of useful and practical examples of how to do it...The modesty with which some of the results is presented is refreshing, and the candor with which the authors treat their shortcomings is commendable. Several authors make it quite clear that good research does not necessarily produce the best information for those working to impr...

Argues that obstacles to deepening our understanding of community/crime links arise in part because most scholars have overlooked four fundamental concerns: how conceptual frames depend on the geographic units and/or temporal units used, and how to establish the meaning of theoretically central ecological empirical indicators.