Classics in Environmental Criminology
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 554
ISBN-13: 9781439817803
Subjects: Criminal psychology; Social Science; Environmental aspects; Environmental psychology; Analysis; Crime
Description: A comprehensive collection of seminal pieces on environmental criminology. It focuses on the role that the immediate environment plays in the occurrence of a crime. It demonstrates that a careful analysis of environmental factors is key to understanding the causes of crime, solving crimes, and helping to predict and prevent them.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Front cover; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Texts; Permissions; About the Editors; Table of Contents; Part I: Early Work on the Ecology of Crime; Body; Chapter 1: The Place of Environmental Criminology within Criminological Though; Chapter 2: Of the Developmentof the Propensity to Crime (1842); Chapter 3: Localities of Crimein Suffolk (1856); Chapter 4: Juvenile Delinquency in a Small City (1916); Chapter 5: Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas; Chapter 6: Urban Ecological Aspects of Crime in Akron (1974); Chapter 7: Intraurban Crime Patterns (1974).; title: Part II: Classics in Environmental CriminologyChapter 8: Social Change and Crime Rate Trends; Chapter 9: Routine Activities and Crime; Chapter 10: Notes on the Geometry of Crime (1981); Chapter 11: The Use of Space in Burglary (1985); Chapter 12: Nodes, Paths, and Edges; Chapter 13: Modeling Offenders' Decisions; Chapter 14: Linking Criminal Choices, Routine Activities, Informal Control, and Criminal Outcomes (1986); Chapter 15: Understanding Crime Displaceme.