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Crime: a Spatial Perspective
- 302 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Crime: a Spatial Perspective
About this book
A comprehensive sampler of the social ecology and geography of crime. Examines the relevance of spatially oriented crime analyses and holistic theories of crime causation, location, and criminal victimization.
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Yes, you can access Crime: a Spatial Perspective by Daniel E. Georges-Abeyie, Keith D. Harries, Daniel E. Georges-Abeyie,Keith D. Harries in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Criminology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part 1. The Spatial Perspective
- Introduction
- 1. Crime Area Research
- 2. Urban Crime and Spatial Perspectives: The British Experience
- 3. Spatial Aspects of Criminal Behavior
- 4. The Spatial Ecology of the Criminal Law
- Part 2. Empirical Spatial Analysis
- Interurban
- Introduction
- 5. Alternative Measures of Crime
- 6. Crime, Occupation, and Economic Specialization
- 7. Criminogenic Correlates of Intermetropolitan Crime Rates, 1960 and 1970
- Intraurban
- Introduction
- 8. The Social Area Structure of Suburban Crime
- 9. Centrographic Analysis of Crime
- 10. Mental Maps, Social Characteristics, and Criminal Mobility
- 11. Characteristics and Typology of the Journey to Crime
- 12. A Spatial Analysis of Retail/Commercial Homicides in Detroit: 1968–1974
- Psychospatial
- Introduction
- 13. Area-Images and Behavior: An Alternative Perspective for Understanding Urban Crime
- 14. Cognitive Mapping and the Subjective Geography of Crime
- 15. Systematic Sociospatial Variation in Perceptions of Crime Location and Severity
- Part 3. Applications of Spatial Approaches
- Introduction
- 16. The Display of Geographic Information in Crime Analysis
- 17. A Geographically-Based Crime Problem Identification System – Its Application to the Analysis and Prevention of Crime
- 18. Theory and Practice in Urban Police Response
- Conclusion
- Name Index
- Subject Index