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Conceptual Issues in the Geography of Crime: Toward a Geography of Social Control

Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1986
Abstract In this paper I describe and question some of the basic premises, beliefs, and values implicit in the geography of crime. The critique focuses on the analytic separation of crime and the control of crime, a separation that has informed most geographic research on crime. Using an instrumentalist methodology, geographers have studied crime, law,
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Crime Geography

2020
George Owusu, Louis Kusi Frimpong
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The Geography of Citizen Crime Reporting

American Journal of Community Psychology, 2013
AbstractResearch has shown variable conceptualizations of neighborhood, often inconsistent with administrative boundaries. The present investigation seeks to quantify the geographic area encompassed by citizens’ reporting of crime. Two Chicago violence prevention organizations gathered near real‐time citizen reports of crime and other precursors of ...
Elise, Wisnieski   +3 more
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The Geography of Transit Crime

Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2002
The link between the social and physical environment and transit crime is an important one, but it is not well understood or explored. This study explores the environmenttransit crime connection by examining in depth the relation between crime incidence at the stations along a light-rail line in Los Angeles and the social and physical characteristics ...
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris   +2 more
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The Geography of Crime

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1941
DURING the past forty years students have become less and less disposed to posit new hypotheses concerning the influences of physical geography upon crime, and have become either skeptical of the old hypotheses or disinterested in them. The observations and brilliant speculations concerning the general effects of the geographical environment made by a ...
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Geography of Crime

2016
The historical transformation in the distribution of crime between towns and rural areas in the Western world between 1750 and 1950 remains a complex and debated issue. The few comparative studies on long-term crime seem to indicate a sharp decrease in urban crime, although with considerable variation in chronology and intensity.
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