How do parents weigh police presence and police activity in their assessments of a neighborhood’s suitability for raising children? How do place-bound institutions relate to neighborhood frames? This article introduces located institutions as a way of articulating how certain institutions—here, the police—become a lens through which parents make meaning of places and thus express preferences for particular neighborhoods or communities. By drawing from 73 interviews with a diverse sample of parents in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, this article shows how parents draw on their perceptions of the police as an attractive amenity or a public nuisance as a way of articulating neighborhood frames and making sense of their residential preferences. More broadly, this article envisions the perception of institutions as a key mechanism that shapes neighborhood frames and residential preferences.

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定位机构：邻里框架、住宅偏好和警务案例

父母如何在评估社区是否适合抚养孩子时权衡警察的存在和警察的活动？受地域限制的机构如何与邻里框架相关联？本文介绍了定位机构，以阐明某些机构——这里是警察——如何成为父母理解地方意义的镜头，从而表达对特定街区或社区的偏好。本文通过对俄亥俄州凯霍加县不同父母样本的 73 次访谈，展示了父母如何利用他们对警察的看法作为一种有吸引力的便利设施或公害，以此作为阐明邻里框架和理解其住宅的一种方式首选项。更广泛地，