Classics in Environmental Criminology / Edition 1

by Martin A. Andresen, Paul J. Brantingham, J. Bryan Kinney

Overview

A careful analysis of environmental factors is key to understanding the causes of crime, to solving crimes, and eventually helping to predict and prevent them. Classics in Environmental Criminology is a comprehensive collection of seminal pieces from legendary contributors who focus on the role that the immediate environment plays in the occurrence of a crime.

Defines the field

Divided into three parts, the book begins by highlighting the development of environmental criminology as a discipline through its origins in spatial criminology. It examines social disorganization theory, which explains criminal activity with reference to the characteristics of the community that delinquents live in. It then discusses the ecology of crime with reference to macroenvironments and microenvironments. The next section introduces concepts such as routine activity theory, the geometric theory of crime, the rational choice theory of offending, and crime pattern theory.

Offers perspectives on prevention

The last part focuses on the concept of crime prevention, examines the idea of altering the environment in order to prevent crime, and discusses situational crime factors and efforts to reduce the opportunities for crimes to be committed. It considers the impact of routine activities on crime prevention initiatives and advocates a flexible approach to crime prevention based on the dynamic nature of our environment. The book concludes with a chapter outlining how environmental criminology has evolved in recent years and provides a future outlook on where it may be headed.

Invaluable as a textbook and as a professional reference, this volume is a comprehensive survey of a critical field in contemporary criminological theory. Offering insight assembled by top academic figures within the criminology community, this work is destined to provoke further inquiry and research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439817797
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/25/2010
Pages:	552
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Martin A. Andresen is an Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University School of Criminology. His areas of interest are spatial crime analysis, geography of crime, environmental criminology, applied spatial statistics and geographical information analysis, and (critical) quantitative methods.

Paul J. Brantingham is a Professor at Simon Fraser University School of Criminology. His areas of interest are computational criminology, environmental criminology, the ecology of crime, crime analysis, historical criminology, comparative criminal justice, legal aid, and related matters.

J. Bryan Kinney is an Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University School of Criminology. His areas of interest are environmental criminology theory, geography of crime, police studies, crime prevention and crime reduction, and quantitative research methods.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments v

A Note on the Texts vii

Permissions ix

About the Editors xi

Section I Early work on the Ecology of Crime

1 The Place of Environmental Criminology within Criminological Thought M.A. Andresen 5

2 Of the Development of the Propensity to Crime (1842) L.A.J. Quetelet 29

3 Localities of crime in Suffolk (1856) J. Glyde 77

4 Juvenile Delinquency in a Small City (1916) E.W. Burgess 83

5 Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas: A Study of Rates of Delinquency in Relation to Differential Characteristics of Local Communities in American Cities (1969) C.R. Shaw H.D. McKay 87

6 Urban Ecological Aspects of Crime in Akron (1974) G.F. Pyle E.W. Hanten P.G. Williams A.L. Pearson II J.G. Doyle K. Kwofie 125

7 Intraurban Crime Patterns (1974) K.D. Harries 155

Section II Classics in Environmental Criminology

8 Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach (1979) L.E. Cohen M. Felson 187

9 Routine Activities and Crime: An Analysis of Victimization in Canada (1990) L.W. Kennedy D.R. Forde 217

10 Notes on the Geometry of Crime (1981) P.L. Brantingham P.J. Brantingham 231

11 The Use of Space in Burglary (1985) G.F. Rengert J. Wasilchick 257

12 Nodes, Paths, and Edges: Considerations on the Complexity of Crime and the Physical Environment (1993) P.L. Brantingham P.J. Brantingham 273

13 Modeling Offenders' Decisions: A Framework for Research and Policy (1985) R.V.G. Clarke D.B. Cornish 311

14 Linking Criminal Choices, Routine Activities, Informal Control, and Criminal Outcomes (1986) M. Felson 341

15 Understanding Crime Displacement: An Application of Rational Choice Theory (1987) D.B. Cornish R.V.G. Clarke 351

16 Environment, Routine, and Situation: Toward a Pattern Theory of Crime (1993) P.L. Brantingham P.J. Brantingham 365

Section III Environmental Criminology and Crime Prevention

17 A Conceptual Model of Crime Prevention (1976) P.J. Brantingham F.L. Faust 395

18 Crime Prevention and Control through Environmental Engineering (1969) C.R. Jeffery 409

19 Criminal Behavior and the Physical Environment: A Perspective C.R. Jeffery 431

20 Situational Crime Prevention: Theory and Practice R.V.G. Clarke 449

21 Routine Activities and Crime Prevention in the Developing Metropolis (1987) M. Felson 461

22 Future Spaces: Classics in Environmental Criminology-Where Do We Go from Here? J.B. Kinney 481

References 489

Index 527