Classics in Environmental Criminology
ISBN: 9781439817797 | 1439817790
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: CRC Press
Pub. Date: 5/25/2010
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A comprehensive collection of seminal pieces on environmental criminology, this work focuses on the role that the immediate environment plays in the occurrence of a crime. Expert contributors demonstrate that a careful analysis of environmental factors is key to understanding the causes of crime, solving crimes, and helping to predict and prevent them. Topics covered include routine activity theory, rational choice theory, pattern theory, prevention, measurement of crime, and the geography of crime. This volume is appropriate as a textbook and ... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. v |
| A Note on the Texts | p. vii |
| Permissions | p. ix |
| About the Editors | p. xi |
| Early work on the Ecology of Crime | |
| The Place of Environmental Criminology within Criminological Thought | p. 5 |
| Of the Development of the Propensity to Crime (1842) | p. 29 |
| Localities of crime in Suffolk (1856) | p. 77 |
| Juvenile Delinquency in a Small ... MORE | p. 83 |
| Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas: A Study of Rates of Delinquency in Relation to Differential Characteristics of Local Communities in American Cities (1969) | p. 87 |
| Urban Ecological Aspects of Crime in Akron (1974) | p. 125 |
| Intraurban Crime Patterns (1974) | p. 155 |
| Classics in Environmental Criminology | |
| Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach (1979) | p. 187 |
| Routine Activities and Crime: An Analysis of Victimization in Canada (1990) | p. 217 |
| Notes on the Geometry of Crime (1981) | p. 231 |
| The Use of Space in Burglary (1985) | p. 257 |
| Nodes, Paths, and Edges: Considerations on the Complexity of Crime and the Physical Environment (1993) | p. 273 |
| Modeling Offenders' Decisions: A Framework for Research and Policy (1985) | p. 311 |
| Linking Criminal Choices, Routine Activities, Informal Control, and Criminal Outcomes (1986) | p. 341 |
| Understanding Crime Displacement: An Application of Rational Choice Theory (1987) | p. 351 |
| Environment, Routine, and Situation: Toward a Pattern Theory of Crime (1993) | p. 365 |
| Environmental Criminology and Crime Prevention | |
| A Conceptual Model of Crime Prevention (1976) | p. 395 |
| Crime Prevention and Control through Environmental Engineering (1969) | p. 409 |
| Criminal Behavior and the Physical Environment: A Perspective | p. 431 |
| Situational Crime Prevention: Theory and Practice | p. 449 |
| Routine Activities and Crime Prevention in the Developing Metropolis (1987) | p. 461 |
| Future Spaces: Classics in Environmental Criminology-Where Do We Go from Here? | p. 481 |
| References | p. 489 |
| Index | p. 527 |
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