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.)

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.

Table of 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