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Communities and Crime - An Enduring American Challenge (Hardcover)
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Communities and Crime - An Enduring American Challenge (Hardcover)
Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
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Social scientists have long argued over the links between crime and
place. The authors of Communities and Crime provide an intellectual
history that traces how varying images of community have evolved
over time and influenced criminological thinking and criminal
justice policy. The authors outline the major ideas that have
shaped the development of theory, research, and policy in the area
of communities and crime. Each chapter examines the problem of the
community through a defining critical or theoretical lens: the
community as social disorganization; as a system of associations;
as a symptom of larger structural forces; as a result of criminal
subcultures; as a broken window; as crime opportunity; and as a
site of resilience. Focusing on these changing images of community,
the empirical adequacy of these images, and how they have resulted
in concrete programs to reduce crime, Communities and Crime
theorizes about and reflects upon why some neighborhoods produce so
much crime. The result is a tour of the dominant theories of place
in social science today.
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