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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Brantingham, Patricia L.,; Brantingham, Paul J.,; Carter, Ronald L.,; Dunn, Christopher S.,; Fishbine, Glenn M.,; Herbert, David T.,; Joelson, Mitchell R.,; Kress, Jack M.,; Makres, Carl,; Nelson, James F.,; Nichols, Woodrow W.,; Patterson, Gene E.,; Phillips, Phillip D.,; Pyle, Gerald F.,; Quaile Hill, Kim,; Rengert, George,; Sanders, Ralph A.,; Smith, Christopher J.,; Stephenson, Larry K.,; Swartz, Robert D.,; Worden, Marshall A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Georges-Abeyie, Daniel E.,; Harries, Keith D.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1980]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 1980
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Contributors --; Foreword --; Introduction --; Part 1. The Spatial Perspective --; 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 --; 5. Alternative Measures of Crime --; 6. Crime, Occupation, and Economic Specialization --; 7. Criminogenic Correlates of Intermetropolitan Crime Rates, 1960 and 1970 --; Intraurban --; 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 --; 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 --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231880497; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/geor90788
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Keith D. Harries, Daniel E. Georges-Abeyie.

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.