Unraveling the Crime-Place Connection examines in a new light how places enhance our understanding of crime and its control. While there has been much work in this area focused on policy, few have examined the underlying theories that inform this work. Theory has played a secondary role in the "criminology of place," and this volume brings it to the forefront of scholarly concerns.
Each part and its chapters illuminate cutting-edge ideas in the etiology and control of crime at place, beginning with an introductory Part I. Crime is often concentrated in very small geographies, and Part II emphasizes the importance of capturing the dynamic nature of places in order to understand crime clustering. Part III offers integrative theories on the varying contextual arrangements of places and links theories of places to other theories of individuals, neighborhoods, and other social contexts. In Part IV, theorists ask how the actions of place owners facilitate or control crime and what policies governments can institute to regulate place management.
This volume will be of interest to criminologists worldwide and useful for graduate-level or advanced undergraduate courses on environmental criminology or crime prevention.
Theoretical Foundations and Frontiers for Understanding High Crime Places: An Introduction. Part I. Crime Concentration and the Dynamic Nature of Places. Chapter 1: The Concentration-Dynamics Tradeoff in Crime Hot Spotting. Chapter 2: Chronic and Temporary Crime Spots. Part II. Frameworks for Understanding Crime and Place. Chapter 3: The Added Value of the Criminology of Place to the Research Agenda of Environmental Criminology: The Necessity of Mechanism-Based Frameworks. Chapter 4: The Relationship Between Social Disorganization and Crime at the Micro Geographic Level: Findings from Tel Aviv-Yafo Using Israeli Census Data. Chapter 5: Place and Neighborhood Contexts. Part III. Managing Places and the Control of Crime. Chapter 6: Place Manager Motivations and Crime Prevention. Chapter 7: The Opportunity Structure for Bad Place Management: A Theory to Assist Effective Regulation of High Crime Places. Part IV. The Role of Place-Based Theory in Criminal Justice. Chapter 8: The Role of Place in Probation and Parole. Chapter 9: A Micro Place Perspective for Theory and Research on Police Behavior. Chapter 10: Not Just What Works, But How It Works: Mechanisms and Context in the Effectiveness of Place-Based Policing. Chapter 11. Beyond Putting "Cops on Dots": Applying Theory to Advance Police Responses to Crime Places. Contributors. Index.
