This volume examines social influences on violent events and violent behavior, particularly concentrating on how the risks of violent criminal offending and victimization are influenced by communities, social situations, and individuals; the role of spouses and intimates; the differences in violence levels between males and females; and the roles of psychoactive substances in violent events.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

<div>This collection explores structural incentives and disincentives to anti-social and unlawful behaviors and the roles of self- regulation, administrative agencies, and civil and criminal sanctions in shaping organizational behavior. Included are articles on organizational crime, the savings and loan industry, insider trading, industrial water pollution, garbage collection, and the nursing home industry.</div>

This volume explores structural incentives and disincentives to anti-social and unlawful behaviours and the roles of self-regulation, administrative agencies, and civil and criminal sanctions in shaping organisational behaviour. Topics and authors are Albert J. Reiss, Jr., "Organizational Crime"; Henry Pontell and Kitty Calavita, "The Savings and Loan Industry"; Nancy Reichman, "Insider Trading;" Franklin Zimring and David Hawkins, "Crime, justice, and the Savings and Loan Crisis;" John Braithwaite, "The Nursing Home Industry"; Peter Reuter, "Garbage Collection in New York"; and Peter Yaeger, "Industrial Water Pollution."

How does crime relate to the quality of life in communities? What role does fear play in influencing crime patterns? What is the effect of crime on a community's school's teachers, and pupils? How does environmental design affect crime? Can household and community mobilization change crime patterns?
Examining the ways in which communities both affect crime and are affected by it, this volume seeks to explain the wide variation of crime levels among different communities. As it attempts to redress the bias toward describing crime in terms of individuals, "Communities and Crime" brings concentrated attention to crime at a community level, suggesting ways in which neighborhoods can change their crime patterns.