Oxford Handbook of Environmental Criminology

The study of how the environment, local geography, and physical locations influence crime has a long history that stretches across many research traditions. These include the neighborhood effects approach developed in the 1920s, the criminology of place, and a newer approach that attends to the perception of crime in communities. Aided by new technologies and improved data-reporting in recent decades, research in environmental criminology has developed rapidly within each of these approaches. Yet research in the subfield remains fragmented and competing theories are rarely examined together. The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Criminology takes a unique approach and synthesizes the contributions of existing methods to better integrate the subfield as a whole. Gerben J.N. Bruinsma and Shane D. Johnson have assembled a cast of top scholars to provide an in-depth source for understanding how and why physical setting can influence the emergence of crime, affect the environment, and impact individual or group behavior. The contributors address how changes in the environment, global connectivity, and technology provide more criminal opportunities and new ways of committing old crimes. They also explore how crimes committed in countries with distinct cultural practices like China and West Africa might lead to different spatial patterns of crime. This is a state-of-the-art compendium on environmental criminology that reflects the diverse research and theory developed across the western world.

Sommario

• Foreword


• Michael Tonry


• 1 Environmental Criminology: History, Scope and State of the Art


• Gerben J.N. Bruinsma and Shane D. Johnson


• SECTION I - Reflections on Theoretical Issues


• 2 Social Spatial Influences


• Pamela Wilcox and Kristin Swartz


• 3 How Do We Get to Causal Clarity on Physical Environment-Crime Dynamics?


• Ralph B. Taylor


• 4 The Individual Perspective


• Lucia Summers and Rob T. Guerette


• 5 Do We Really Need Collective Social Process to Understand Why Crime Occurs and Offenders Commit Crime?


• Elizabeth R. Groff


• 6 The Importance of High Offender Neighborhoods within Environmental Criminology


• Anthony Bottoms


• 7 Four Images of the Delinquent Area


• Marcus Felson


• 8 Evaluating Theories of Environmental Criminology: Strengths and Weaknesses


• Francis T. Cullen and Teresa C. Kulig


• SECTION II - Methods of Research in Environmental Criminology


• 9 Deciding on the 'Appropriate' Unit of Analysis: Practical Considerations in Environmental Criminology


• Brian Lawton


• 10 GIS and Spatial Analysis


• Martin Andresen


• 11 The Role of Innovative Data Collection Methods in Advancing Criminological Understanding


• Reka Solymosi and Kate Bowers


• 12 New Steps in Visualization for Research in Environmental Criminology


• Patricia L. Brantingham, Paul J. Brantingham, Justin Song, and Valerie Spicer


• 13 Victimization Surveys in Environmental Criminology


• Andromachi Tseloni, Nick Tilley, and Graham Farrell


• 14 Systematic Observation


• Ian Brunton-Smith


• 15 Computer Simulations. Agent-Based Environmental Criminology


• Daniel Birks


• SECTION III -Everyday Urban Crime: Empirical Examples and Reviews of Research


• Neighborhoods and Communities


• 16 Research on Neighborhoods in European Cities


• Lieven Pauwelst, Gerben Bruinsma, Frank Weerman, and Wim Hardyns


• 17 Testing Theories of Social Disorganization in Nigeria


• Faisal Umar, Ahmadu Bello, Shane D. Johnson, and James A. Cheshire


• 18 Gated Communities and Crime in the United States


• Nicholas Branic and Charis E. Kubrin


• 19 Egohoods: Capturing Change in Spatial Crime Patterns


• John R. Hipp and Christopher J. Bates


• 20 Signal Crimes: How the Harms of Crime and Disorder Travel across Social Space-Time


• Martin Innes and Helen Innes


• Built Environment


• 21 Built Environment, Land Use and Crime


• Kathryn Wuschke and J. Bryan Kinney


• 22 Macro Level Generators and Crime (Parks, Stadiums, and Transit Stations)


• Andrew Newton


• 23 Does Crime Impact Real Estate Prices? An Assessment of Accessibility and Location


• Vania Ceccato and Mats Wilhelmsson


• 24 Street Networks and Crime


• Toby Davies and Kate Bowers


• Places


• 25 The Criminology of Places


• Cody W. Telep, David Weisburd, and George Mason


• 26 Studying Situational Effects of Setting Characteristics: Examples from the Study of Peers, Activities and Neighbourhoods


• Frank Weerman, Evelien Hoeben, Wim Bernasco, Lieven Pauwels, and Gerben J.N. Bruinsma


• 27 Place Management


• John Eck and Tamara D. Madensen


• 28 Crime Concentrations: Hot Dots, Hot Spots and Hot Flushes


• Dainis Ignatans and Ken Pease


• Routine Activity Convergence


• 29 Time and Opportunity


• Lisa Tompson and Timothy Coupe


• 30 Guardianship


• Danielle Reynald


• 31 Mobility and Location Choice of Offenders


• Wim Bernasco


• Crime Prevention


• 32 What have we Learned from Environmental Criminology for the Prevention of Crime?


• Brandon Welsh and Sema A. Taheri


• SECTION IV - Special Crimes and Circumstances


• 33 Riots, Space and Place


• Peter Baudains and Shane D. Johnson


• 34 Geoprofiling Terrorism


• Kim Rossmo


• 35 Child Sexual Abuse and Opportunity


• Richard Wortley


• 36 (Juvenile) Gangs and Space


• Matthew Valasik and George Tita


• 37 Organized Crime and Places


• Edward Kleemans


• 38 Cybercrime and Place: Applying Environmental Criminology to Crimes in Cyberspace


• Fernando Miro Llinares and Shane D. Johnson


• 39 Maritime Piracy


• Michael Townsley

Info autore

Gerben J.N. Bruinsma is full-time director of the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam and professor emeritus of environmental criminology at the Vrije University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His current interests are environmental, theoretical and historical criminology.

Shane D. Johnson is professor and director of the UCL Dawes Centre for Future Crime at the UCL Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science at University College London. He has particular interests in exploring how methods from other disciplines can inform understanding of crime and security issues, and the extent to which theories developed to explain everyday crimes can explain more extreme events such as riots, maritime piracy and insurgency.

Riassunto

The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Criminology provides an in-depth source for understanding how and why physical setting can influence the emergence of crime, affect the environment, and impact individual or group behavior.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Gerben J.n. (Director Bruinsma
• Con la collaborazione di: Gerben J. N. Bruinsma (Editore), Gerben J.N. Bruinsma (Editore), Gerben J.n. (Director Bruinsma (Editore), Shane D. Johnson (Editore), Shane D. (Professor Johnson (Editore), Johnson Shane D. (Editore)
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9780190279707
• ISBN: 978-0-19-027970-7
• Pagine: 968
• Serie: Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto penale, diritto processuale penale, criminologia; LAW / Criminal Law / General, Criminal justice law