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The Geography of Citizen Crime Reporting
American Journal of Community Psychology, 2013AbstractResearch 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, 2002The 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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Geographies of Disability Hate Crime
2021This chapter focuses upon the spatial and temporal characteristics of hate experiences as they are described and reflected upon by participants, with a particular focus upon how these incidents affect their sense of being within different spaces. In doing so, I ask questions about the ways that hate can become an ordinary and anticipated experience ...
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2021
Geographies of crime are based on the spatial concept that combines social, natural, and environmental sciences. Geographic information systems crime analysts are highly sought after by law enforcement agencies from the local to the international level around the globe.
Leitner, Michael +2 more
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Geographies of crime are based on the spatial concept that combines social, natural, and environmental sciences. Geographic information systems crime analysts are highly sought after by law enforcement agencies from the local to the international level around the globe.
Leitner, Michael +2 more
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The economic geographies of transnational organised crime
2021This chapter explores one of the largely overlooked elements within the literature of transnational organised crime (TOC). It considers the economic geographies of organised crime. In pursuing this, the chapter aims both to excavate those geographical ‘traces’ that exist, often implicitly, within the literatures of TOC and to raise a number of ...
Tim Hall, Ray Hudson
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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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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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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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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 IN UKRAINIAN REGIONAL CENTERS
Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Geography, 2021The article considers the issue of the spread of criminal offenses in the regional centers of Ukraine in 2015–2019, as well as in the first half of 2020. The purpose of the article is to reveal the topic of crime in the regional centers of Ukraine, as one of the most important problems for the further development of Ukraine as a European state.
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The Multiscalar Geography of Hate Crimes
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010This paper develops a theoretical analysis of hate crimes in light of some core concepts of legal geography – physical place, discursive space, scale, territory, and citizenship. It argues that bias crimes and reactions to them, including the possibility of state counterviolence, constitute a dynamic and ongoing dialogue that constructs territory and ...
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The Geography of American Crime, 1968
Journal of Geography, 1971Abstract A series of computer-generated maps are presented, illustrating the state-level distribution of major crimes in the United States for the year 1968. The maps are divided into two broad groups—those relating to (a) crimes of violence, and (b) crimes against property. In the violent crime group, distributions are shown for murder, rape, robbery,
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