The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Criminology
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| Anteprima |
The
study of how the environment, local geography, and physical locations
influence crime has a long history that stretches across many research
traditions. These include the neighborhood effects approach developed in
the 1920s, the criminology of place, and a newer approach that attends
to the perception of crime in communities. Aided by new technologies and
improved data-reporting in recent decades, research in environmental
criminology has developed rapidly within each of these approaches. Yet
research in the subfield remains fragmented and competing theories are
rarely examined together. The Oxford Handbook of Environmental
Criminology takes a unique approach and synthesizes the contributions of
existing methods to better integrate the subfield as a whole. Gerben
J.N. Bruinsma and Shane D. Johnson have assembled a cast of top scholars
to provide an in-depth source for understanding how and why physical
setting can influence the emergence of crime, affect the environment,
and impact individual or group behavior. The contributors address how
changes in the environment, global connectivity, and technology provide
more criminal opportunities and new ways of committing old crimes. They
also explore how crimes committed in countries with distinct cultural
practices like China and West Africa might lead to different spatial
patterns of crime. This is a state-of-the-art compendium on
environmental criminology that reflects the diverse research and theory
developed across the western world.
