Social, Ecological and Environmental Theories of Crime

Contents: Introduction Part I The Early Days a " Human Ecology: The study of the delinquent as a person, Ernest W. Burgess The ecological approach to the study of the human community, R. D. McKenzie Human ecology, Robert Ezra Park Ecology and human ecology, Amos H. Hawley. Part II Social Disorganization and Beyond: The neighborhood and child conduct, Henry D. McKay Rejoinder, Clifford R. Shaw The conflict of values in delinquency areas, Solomon Kobrin Community structure and crime: testing social-disorganization theory, Robert J. Sampson and W. Byron Groves. Part III The Focus on Deteriorating Neighbourhoods: Dangerous places: crime and residential environment, Dennis W. Roncek Community change and patterns of delinquency, Robert J. Bursik Jr and Jim Webb The police and neighborhood safety: broken windows, James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling Neighborhood and delinquency: an assessment of contextual effects, Ora Simcha-Fagan and Joseph E. Schwartz Neighborhood social capital as differential social organization: resident and leadership dimensions, Robert J. Sampson and Corina Graif . Part IV The Rise of Environmental Criminology: Crime prevention and control through environmental engineering, C. Ray Jeffery The spatial patterning of burglary, Paul J. Brantingham and Patricia L. Brantingham Some effects of being female on criminal spatial behavior, George F. Rengert Crime seen through a cone of resolution, Paul J. Brantingham, Delmar A. Dyreson and Patricia L. Brantingham Cities and crime: a geographic model, Keith D. Harries The effects of building size on personal crime and fear of crime, Oscar Newman and Karen A. Franck The methods and measures of centrography and the spatial dynamics of rape, James L. LeBeau Nodes, paths and edges: considerations on the complexity of crime and the physical environment, Patricia L. Brantingham and Paul J. Brantingham. Part V Recent Works in Social, Ecological and Environmental Criminology: Crime measures and the spatial analysis of criminal activity, Martin A. Andresen A temporal constraint theory to explain opportunity-based spatial offending patterns, Jerry H. Ratcliffe Where size matters: agglomeration economies of illegal drug markets in Philadelphia, Travis A. Taniguchi, George F. Rengert and Eric S. McCord The future of Newman's defensible space theory: linking defensible space and the routine activities of place, Danielle M. Reynald and Henk Elffers Advancing science and research in criminal justice/criminology: complex systems theory and non-linear analyses, Jeffery T. Walker Name index.