The Spatial Scale of Crime
Combining insights from two distinct research traditions--the communities and crime tradition that focuses on why some neighborhoods have more crime than others, and the burgeoning crime and place…
Specifikacia The Spatial Scale of Crime
Combining insights from two distinct research traditions--the communities and crime tradition that focuses on why some neighborhoods have more crime than others, and the burgeoning crime and place literature that focuses on crime in micro-geographic units--this book explores the spatial scale of crime. Criminologist John Hipp articulates a new theoretical perspective that provides an individual- and household-level theory to underpin existing ecological models of neighborhoods and crime. A focus is maintained on the agents of change within neighborhoods and communities, and how households nested in neighborhoods might come to perceive problems in the neighborhood and then have a choice of exit, voice, loyalty, or neglect (EVLN).A characteristic of many crime incidents is that they happen at a particular spatial location and a point in time. These two simple insights suggest