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Crime: a Spatial Perspective / ed. by Keith D. Harries, Daniel E. Georges-Abeyie.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1980]Copyright date: ©1980Description: 1 online resource (302 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231907880
  • 9780231880497
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.2
LOC classification:
  • HV6150 .C74
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- 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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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