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Informationen zum Autor David Weisburd is a Distinguished Professor at George Mason University, Virginia and Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy. He also holds a joint appointment as the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law in Jerusalem. He serves as the Chief Science Advisor at the Police Foundation in Washington DC and is Chair of its Research Advisory Committee. Weisburd is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Criminology and of the Academy of Experimental Criminology. He is the recipient of many prestigious honors and awards including the Stockholm Prize in Criminology 2010, the American Society of Criminology's Sutherland Award in 2014, and the 2015 Israel Prize in Criminology. He has also been selected as the recipient of the American Society of Criminology's 2017 August Vollmer Award. Klappentext Over the last two decades, there has been increased interest in the distribution of crime and other antisocial behavior at lower levels of geography. The focus on micro geography and its contribution to the understanding and prevention of crime has been called the 'criminology of place'. It pushes scholars to examine small geographic areas within cities, often as small as addresses or street segments, for their contribution to crime. Here, the authors describe what is known about crime and place, providing the most up-to-date and comprehensive review available. Place Matters shows that the study of criminology of place should be a central focus of criminology in the twenty-first century. It creates a tremendous opportunity for advancing our understanding of crime, and for addressing it. The book brings together eighteen top scholars in criminology and place to provide comprehensive research expanding across different themes. Zusammenfassung This book will appeal to graduate students taking courses in crime and place! environmental criminology! human geography! and crime prevention. This book is relevant to the broad criminological audience! since its purpose is to position the criminology of place in its context in criminology more generally. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Crime places within criminological thought; 2. The concentration of crime at place; 3. Theories of crime and place; 4. The importance of place in mainstream criminology and related fields: influences and lessons to be learned; 5. Methods of place-based research; 6. Reducing crime at high crime places: practice and evidence; 7. Crime places in the criminological imagination....
