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Street profile analysis: A new method for mapping crime on major roadways [PDF]
Applied Geography, 2016 Street profile analysis is a new method for analyzing temporal and spatial crime patterns along major roadways in metropolitan areas. This crime mapping technique allows for the identification of crime patterns along these street segments.
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2012
AbstractPeople who commit burglary, robbery, carjacking, and other serious predatory street crimes are disproportionately young, poor, and male. Notwithstanding the strong link between these demographic characteristics and street crime, not all young, poor, males commit street crimes and not all street criminals are young, poor, or male.
Richard Wright, Volkan Topalli
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AbstractPeople who commit burglary, robbery, carjacking, and other serious predatory street crimes are disproportionately young, poor, and male. Notwithstanding the strong link between these demographic characteristics and street crime, not all young, poor, males commit street crimes and not all street criminals are young, poor, or male.
Richard Wright, Volkan Topalli
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2018
Street networks are the primary structures around which urban areas are arranged. Perhaps more significantly, though, the network acts as a substrate for movement, and defines the paths that can be taken between locations. It therefore determines, among other things, how far places are from each other, and the extent to which different features will be
Toby Davies, Kate J. Bowers
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Street networks are the primary structures around which urban areas are arranged. Perhaps more significantly, though, the network acts as a substrate for movement, and defines the paths that can be taken between locations. It therefore determines, among other things, how far places are from each other, and the extent to which different features will be
Toby Davies, Kate J. Bowers
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2012
AbstractMany studies on criminology emphasize the role of cultural mechanisms—the symbolic, relational aspect of social organization—in the uneven representation of crime in society. While dimensions of social structure are also important in this literature, it differs from other criminological research because of the explanatory power granted to ...
Mark T. Berg, Eric A. Stewart
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AbstractMany studies on criminology emphasize the role of cultural mechanisms—the symbolic, relational aspect of social organization—in the uneven representation of crime in society. While dimensions of social structure are also important in this literature, it differs from other criminological research because of the explanatory power granted to ...
Mark T. Berg, Eric A. Stewart
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Environment and Behavior, 1992
Streetwalkers have unique transactions with the urban environment. They must be aware of the shifting environmental stimuli and react accordingly in order to remain in business and avoid arrests. The transactions and schemata of streetwalkers are explored in light of various sociocultural factors by use of police arrest records, field observations ...
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Streetwalkers have unique transactions with the urban environment. They must be aware of the shifting environmental stimuli and react accordingly in order to remain in business and avoid arrests. The transactions and schemata of streetwalkers are explored in light of various sociocultural factors by use of police arrest records, field observations ...
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The street crime of the internet
New Scientist, 2007Denial-of-service attacks hit individuals and small firms hardest, so how can the little guys fight back?
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Crime in the Streets and Crime in the Suites: Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Justice
Teaching Sociology, 1990This comprehensive collection focuses on a definition of crime, different types of crime, criminal justice, law and policing and courts and corrective sentencing. Each section includes a general introduction to the issue and two contrasting readings which represent each side of the argument.
John R. Fuller +2 more
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Street Life, Crime and (Dis)Organised Crime
2019Following on from the theme of the last chapter which highlighted the formation, membership process, and other structural characterises of gang types in the research context, this chapter continue by presenting the gang, again within the typology framework, and explores gang activity in a more generic sense.
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BUSINESS CYCLES AND STREET CRIME
Criminology, 2006This study examines the influence of business cycle fluctuations on street crime in the conceptual framework of Cantor and Land's(1985) seminal work distinguishing between opportunity and motivation effects. The analysis contributes to the literature three ways.
THOMAS M. ARVANITES, ROBERT H. DEFINA
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2021
This chapter assesses the gendered aspects of street crime, gangs and drugs in the context of the street as both a space and a culture. It examines the symbolic power of street culture, and the street as a site of pleasure, danger and mundane activity.
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This chapter assesses the gendered aspects of street crime, gangs and drugs in the context of the street as both a space and a culture. It examines the symbolic power of street culture, and the street as a site of pleasure, danger and mundane activity.
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