
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.
This volume investigates how physical environments, local geography, and spatial settings influence the emergence and patterns of criminal behavior. Editors Gerben J. N. Bruinsma and Shane D. Johnson, both established scholars in the field, curate contributions from a diverse group of international experts to synthesize fragmented research traditions. The text aims to integrate disparate theories—ranging from neighborhood effects to the criminology of place—into a cohesive framework that accounts for modern technological and global shifts.
What You Will Find
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Experts identify this handbook as a comprehensive, state-of-the-art compendium that effectively bridges the gap between fragmented subfields in environmental criminology. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, making it a primary resource for researchers and advanced students in the field.
Page Count:
962
Publication Date:
2018-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0190865156
ISBN-13:
9780190865153
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