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* Provides an organized analytical toolkit for mastering clear
professional writing. * Ideal accompaniment to writing-intensive
courses required at universities. * Addresses topics seldom
addressed in writing books: ethics beyond plagiarism; writing with
coauthors; organizing complex ideas; using analytics to improve
writing; crafting strong beginnings and endings; using examples and
metaphors; and integrating tables, charts, and diagrams.
Unraveling the Crime-Place Connection examines in a new light how
places enhance our understanding of crime and its control. While
there has been much work in this area focused on policy, few have
examined the underlying theories that inform this work. Theory has
played a secondary role in the "criminology of place," and this
volume brings it to the forefront of scholarly concerns. Each part
and its chapters illuminate cutting-edge ideas in the etiology and
control of crime at place, beginning with an introductory Part I.
Crime is often concentrated in very small geographies, and Part II
emphasizes the importance of capturing the dynamic nature of places
in order to understand crime clustering. Part III offers
integrative theories on the varying contextual arrangements of
places and links theories of places to other theories of
individuals, neighborhoods, and other social contexts. In Part IV,
theorists ask how the actions of place owners facilitate or control
crime and what policies governments can institute to regulate place
management. This volume will be of interest to criminologists
worldwide and useful for graduate-level or advanced undergraduate
courses on environmental criminology or crime prevention.
Crime analysis has become an increasingly important part of
policing and crime prevention, and thousands of specialist crime
analysts are now employed by police forces worldwide. This is the
first book to set out the principles and practice of crime
analysis, and is designed to be used both by crime analysts
themselves, by those responsible for the training of crime analysts
and teaching its principles, and those teaching this subject as
part of broader policing and criminal justice courses. The
particular focus of this book is on the adoption of a problem
solving approach, showing how crime analysis can be used and
developed to support a problem oriented policing approach - based
on the idea that the police should concentrate on identifying
patterns of crime and anticipating crimes rather than just reacting
to crimes once they have been committed. In his foreword to this
book, Nick Ross, presenter of BBC Crime Watch, argues passionately
that crime analysts are 'the new face of policing', and have a
crucial part to play in the increasingly sophisticated police
response to crime and its approach to crime prevention - 'You are
the brains, the expert, the specialist, the boffin.'
* Provides an organized analytical toolkit for mastering clear
professional writing. * Ideal accompaniment to writing-intensive
courses required at universities. * Addresses topics seldom
addressed in writing books: ethics beyond plagiarism; writing with
coauthors; organizing complex ideas; using analytics to improve
writing; crafting strong beginnings and endings; using examples and
metaphors; and integrating tables, charts, and diagrams.
Crime analysis has become an increasingly important part of
policing and crime prevention, and thousands of specialist crime
analysts are now employed by police forces worldwide. This work
sets out the principles and practice of crime analysis, and is
designed to be used both by crime analysts themselves, by those
responsible for the training of crime analysts and teaching its
principles, and those teaching this subject as part of broader
policing and criminal justice courses. approach, showing how crime
analysis can be used and developed to support a problem oriented
policing approach based on the idea that the police should
concentrate on identifying patterns of crime and anticipating
crimes rather than just reacting to crimes once they have been
committed. In his foreword to this book, Nick Ross, presenter of
BBC Crime Watch, argues that crime analysts are the new face of
policing, and have a crucial part to play in the increasingly
sophisticated police response to crime and its approach to crime
prevention.
This brief describes the theory and evidence of a form of social
control known as place management. Created by property owners,
place management is an alternative to the two other domains of
social control: formally created by the state and informally
created by residents. It helps explain the high concentration of
crime and disorder at a relatively small proportion of addresses
and facilities. This volume examines the specifics of place
management and extends it in three ways: to show how high crime
places may radiate crime into their surroundings; to reveal
networks of places that create crime hotspot spanning blocks; to
demonstrate how networks of place managers influence crime
throughout neighborhoods. Finally, it shows that the policy
implications of place management extend far beyond the police and
should include regulatory policies.
Unraveling the Crime-Place Connection examines in a new light how
places enhance our understanding of crime and its control. While
there has been much work in this area focused on policy, few have
examined the underlying theories that inform this work. Theory has
played a secondary role in the "criminology of place," and this
volume brings it to the forefront of scholarly concerns. Each part
and its chapters illuminate cutting-edge ideas in the etiology and
control of crime at place, beginning with an introductory Part I.
Crime is often concentrated in very small geographies, and Part II
emphasizes the importance of capturing the dynamic nature of places
in order to understand crime clustering. Part III offers
integrative theories on the varying contextual arrangements of
places and links theories of places to other theories of
individuals, neighborhoods, and other social contexts. In Part IV,
theorists ask how the actions of place owners facilitate or control
crime and what policies governments can institute to regulate place
management. This volume will be of interest to criminologists
worldwide and useful for graduate-level or advanced undergraduate
courses on environmental criminology or crime prevention.
Jane Jacobs coined the phrase 'eyes on the street' to depict those
who maintain order in cities. Most criminologists assume these eyes
belong to residents. In this Element we show that most of the eyes
she described belonged to shopkeepers and property owners. They,
along with governments, wield immense power through property
ownership and regulation. From her work, we propose a Neo-Jacobian
perspective to reframe how crime is connected to neighborhood
function through deliberate decision-making at places. It advances
three major turning points for criminology. This includes turns
from: 1. residents to place managers as the primary source of
informal social control; 2. ecological processes to outsiders'
deliberate actions that create crime opportunities; and 3. a
top-down macro- to bottom-up micro-spatial explanation of crime
patterns. This perspective demonstrates the need for criminology to
integrate further into economics, political science, urban
planning, and history to improve crime control policies.
Over the last two decades, there has been increased interest in the
distribution of crime and other antisocial behavior at lower levels
of geography. The focus on micro geography and its contribution to
the understanding and prevention of crime has been called the
'criminology of place'. It pushes scholars to examine small
geographic areas within cities, often as small as addresses or
street segments, for their contribution to crime. Here, the authors
describe what is known about crime and place, providing the most
up-to-date and comprehensive review available. Place Matters shows
that the study of criminology of place should be a central focus of
criminology in the twenty-first century. It creates a tremendous
opportunity for advancing our understanding of crime, and for
addressing it. The book brings together eighteen top scholars in
criminology and place to provide comprehensive research expanding
across different themes.
A new paradigm for supervising offenders in the community
Environmental Corrections is an innovative guide filled with rich
insights and strategies for probation and parole officers to
effectively integrate offenders back into the community and reduce
recidivism. Authors Lacey Schaefer, Francis T. Cullen, and John E.
Eck move beyond traditional models for interventions and build
directly on the applied focus of environmental criminology
theories. Using this approach, the authors answer the question of
what officers can do to decrease opportunities for an offender to
commit a crime. Readers will learn how to recognize and assess
specific criminal opportunities in an offender's past and gain the
tools and strategies they need to design an individualized
supervision plan that channels offenders away from these
criminogenic situations.
Over the last two decades, there has been increased interest in the
distribution of crime and other antisocial behavior at lower levels
of geography. The focus on micro geography and its contribution to
the understanding and prevention of crime has been called the
'criminology of place'. It pushes scholars to examine small
geographic areas within cities, often as small as addresses or
street segments, for their contribution to crime. Here, the authors
describe what is known about crime and place, providing the most
up-to-date and comprehensive review available. Place Matters shows
that the study of criminology of place should be a central focus of
criminology in the twenty-first century. It creates a tremendous
opportunity for advancing our understanding of crime, and for
addressing it. The book brings together eighteen top scholars in
criminology and place to provide comprehensive research expanding
across different themes.
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