In particular neighborhoods with high levels of concentrated disadvantage can overcome some of the challenges they face with crime when local systems of informal social control, often referred to as collective efficacy, emerge to help constraining delinquency in the area.
Particularmente, vecindarios con altos niveles de concentración de desventaja social pueden superar problemas de criminalidad cuando sistemas locales de control social informal, llamado comúnmente eficacia colectiva, aparecen para combatir la delincuencia.