The Spatial Scale of Crime
How Physical and Social Distance Drive the Spatial Location of Crime
- 260 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
The Spatial Scale of Crime
How Physical and Social Distance Drive the Spatial Location of Crime
About this book
Combining insights from two distinct research traditions—the communities and crime tradition that focuses on why some neighborhoods have more crime than others, and the burgeoning crime and place literature that focuses on crime in micro-geographic units—this book explores the spatial scale of crime. Criminologist John Hipp articulates a new theoretical perspective that provides an individual- and household-level theory to underpin existing ecological models of neighborhoods and crime. A focus is maintained on the agents of change within neighborhoods and communities, and how households nested in neighborhoods might come to perceive problems in the neighborhood and then have a choice of exit, voice, loyalty, or neglect (EVLN).
A characteristic of many crime incidents is that they happen at a particular spatial location and a point in time. These two simple insights suggest the need for both a spatial and a longitudinal perspective in studying crime events. The spatial question focuses on why crime seems to occur more frequently in some locations than others, and the consequences of this for certain areas of cities, or neighborhoods. The longitudinal component focuses on how crime impacts, and is impacted by, characteristics of the environment. This book looks at where offenders, targets, and guardians might live, and where they might spatially travel throughout the environment, exploring how vibrant neighborhoods are generated, how neighborhoods change, and what determines why some neighborhoods decline over time while others avoid this fate.
Hipp's theoretical model provides a cohesive response to the general question of the spatial scale of crime and articulates necessary future directions for the field. This book is essential for students and scholars interested in spatial-temporal criminology.
WINNER of the 2023 James Short Senior Scholar Award!
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Understanding crime in neighborhoods
- 2 A general theory of spatial crime patterns: Explaining where crime occurs
- 3 What is a neighborhood?: Spatial social networks and egohoods
- 4 How do we learn about crime and disorder?
- 5 How do residents respond to neighborhood crime?: The EVLN model
- 6 Why doesn’t everyone choose “voice”?
- 7 Social distance, physical distance, and social networks
- 8 Temporal scale: Stability and dynamic neighborhoods
- 9 Larger units of analysis: How do small-scale processes scale up?
- 10 Conclusion: Where are the implications of all this?
- Index