The criminology of place : street segments and our understanding of the crime problem / David Weisburd, Elizabeth R. Groff, and Sue-Ming Yang.
"The study of crime has focused primarily on why particular people commit crime or why specific communities have higher crime levels than others. This book presents a new and different way of looking at the crime problem by examining why specific streets in a city have specific crime trends ove...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2012]
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| Online Access: | University Press Scholarship Online Complete Collection |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Putting Crime in Its Place
- 3. Crime Concentrations and Crime Patterns at Places
- 4. The Importance of Street Segments in the Production of the Crime Problem
- 5. Concentrations of Crime Opportunities
- 6. Are Processes of Social Disorganization Relevant to the Criminology of Place?
- 7. Understanding Developmental Patterns of Crime at Street Segments
- 8. Conclusions.