| Description |
xi, 221 pages ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Research in criminology |
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Research in criminology.
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| Contents |
Key issues in the social ecology of crime / James M. Byrne and Robert J. Sampson -- Part I. Neighborhood level analyses of crime, victimization, and fear -- Neighborhood family structure and the risk of personal victimization / Robert J. Sampson -- Fear and its relationship to crime, neighborhood deterioration, and informal social control / Stephanie W. Greenberg -- Delinquency rates as sources of ecological change / Robert J. Bursik, Jr. -- Part II. Interurban analyses of violent and property crime -- Cities, citizens, and crime : The ecological/nonecological debate reconsidered / James M. Byrne -- Age, sex, race, and arrest trends for 12 of the nation's largest central cities / Roland Chilton -- Urban crime rates : Effects of inequality, welfare dependency, region, and race / Richard Rosenfeld -- Part III. The impact of ecological factors on decision making and policy in the criminal justice system -- Person-environment interactions in the prediction of recidivism / Stephen D. Gottfredson and Ralph B. Taylor -- Firearms ownership and violent crime : A comparison of Illinois counties / David J. Bordua |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [189]-207 |
| Subject |
Criminals -- United States.
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Crime -- United States.
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Criminals.
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Crime.
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Criminal anthropology.
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Criminal statistics -- United States.
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Criminology -- United States.
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Criminology.
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Environmental psychology.
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Human ecology -- United States.
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Social ecology -- United States.
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Human ecology.
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Social ecology.
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Urban ecology (Sociology) -- United States.
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| Author |
Byrne, James M. (James Michael), 1954-
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Sampson, Robert J.
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| LC no. |
85027823 |
| ISBN |
038796231X |
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