Screen LibraryThe Oxford handbook of environmental criminology /
The study of how the environment, local geography, and physical locations influence crime has a long history that stretches across a number of research traditions. These include the neighborhood-effects approach developed by the Chicago school of sociology in the 1920s; modern environmental criminol...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The Oxford handbooks in criminology and criminal justice
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| Summary: |
The study of how the environment, local geography, and physical locations influence crime has a long history that stretches across a number of research traditions. These include the neighborhood-effects approach developed by the Chicago school of sociology in the 1920s; modern environmental criminology that explains the geographic distribution of crime; the criminology of place, which focuses on crime rates at specific places over time; and a newer approach that attends to the perception of crime and disorder in communities. Aided by new mobile and digital technologies as well as improved da |
| Carrier Form: | xxii, 938 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780190279707 0190279702 |
| Index Number: | HV6401 |
| CLC: | D917-62 |
| Call Number: | D917-62/O984-2 |
| Contents: |
Social Spatial Influences / Testing Theories of Social Disorganization in Nigeria / Signal Crimes: How the Harms of Crime and Disorder Travel across Social Space-Time / Egohoods: Capturing Change in Spatial Crime Patterns / Criminology of Places / Built Environment, Land Use and Crime / Street Networks and Crime / Macro Level Gene |