| Description |
1 online resource (554 pages) |
| Contents |
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) |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Crime -- Environmental aspects
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Crime analysis.
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Environmental psychology.
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Criminal psychology.
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environmental psychology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Crime analysis
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Crime -- Environmental aspects
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Criminal psychology
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Environmental psychology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010011685 |
| ISBN |
9781439817803 |
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1439817804 |
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0429245874 |
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9780429245879 |
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