The research from the University of Louisville is a study that utilized both photo elicitation and standard quantitative survey research techniques to examine the impact of graffiti on perceptions of safety. The researchers used photographs of local graffiti that varied from local tags to massive murals and surveyed the images to people within local neighborhoods. The results to demonstrate that graffiti was related to perceptions of safety within the local neighborhoods that were surveyed. Which found that graffiti was not a unidimensional in terms of its impact on attitudes concerning safety.
