Items:

Subscale: Informal Social Control:
What is the likelihood that your neighbors could be counted on to intervene in various ways if:
1. Children were skipping school and hanging out on a street corner
2. Children were spray-painting graffiti on a local building
3. Children were showing disrespect to an adult
4. A fight broke out in front of their house
5. The fire station closest to their home was threatened with budget cuts

Response Options:
Very likely - 1
Likely - 2
Neither likely nor unlikely - 3
Unlikely - 4
Very unlikely - 5

Subscale: Social Cohesion and Trust:
How strongly do you agree that:
6. People around here are willing to help their neighbors
7. This is a close-knit neighborhood
8. People in this neighborhood can be trusted
9. People in this neighborhood generally don't get along with each other*
10. People in this neighborhood do not share the same values*

*Items are reverse coded

Response Options:
Strongly agree - 1
Somewhat agree - 2
Neither agree nor disagree - 3
Somewhat disagree - 4
Strongly disagree - 5