Social, ecological and environmental theories of crime
By: edited by Jeffery T. Walker
Series: The library of essays in theoretical criminology; Library of essays in theoretical criminology
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 535
ISBN-13: 9780754628972
Subjects: Crime; Sociological aspects; Environmental psychology; Criminal psychology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The study of the delinquent as a person  -- Ernest W. Burgess; title: The ecological approach to the study of the human community  -- Roderick D. McKenzie; title: Human ecology  -- Robert E. Park; title: Ecology and human ecology  -- Amos H. Hawley; title: The neighborhood and child conduct  -- Henry D. McKay; title: A rejoinder, Clifford R. Shaw; The conflict of values in delinquency areas  -- Solomon Kobrin; title: Community structure and crime : testing social disorganization theory  -- Robert J. Sampson and W. Byron Groves; title: Dangerous places : crime and residential environment  -- Dennis W. Roncek; title: Community change and patterns of delinquency  -- Robert J. Bursik Jr. and Jim Webb; title: Broken windows  -- James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling; title: Neighborhood and delinquency : an assessment of contextual effects  -- Ora Simcha-Fagan and Joseph E. Schwartz; Neighborhood social capital as differential social organization : resident and leadership dimensions / -- Robert J. Sampson and Corina Graif; title: Crime prevention and control through environmental engineering  -- C. Ray Jeffery; title: The spatial patterning of burglary  -- Paul J. Brantingham and Patricia L. Brantingham; title: Some effects of being female on criminal spatial behavior  -- George F. Rengert; title: Crime seen through a cone of resolution  -- Paul J. Brantingham, Delmar A. Dyreson, and Patricia L. Brantingham; title: Cities and crime : a geographic model  -- Keith Harries; title: The effects of building size on personal crime and fear of crime  -- Oscar Newman and Karen A. Franck; title: The methods and measures of centrography and the spatial dynamics of rape  -- James L. LeBeau; title: Nodes, paths, and edges : considerations on the complexity of crime and the physical environment  -- Patricia L. Brantingham and Paul J. Brantingham; title: Crime measures and the spatial analysis of criminal activity  -- Martin A. Andresen; title: A temporal constraint theory to explain opportunity-based spatial offending patterns  -- Jerry Ratcliffe; title: Where size matters: agglomeration economies of illegal drug markets in Philadelphia  -- Travis A. Taniguchi, George F. Rengert, and Eric S. McCord; title: The future of Newman's defensible space theory : linking defensible space and the routine activities of place  -- Daniell M. Renald and Henk Elffers; title: Advancing science and research in criminal justice/criminology: complex systems theory and non-linear analyses -- Jeffery T. Walke.