Communities and crime: an enduring American challenge
"[This book provides] an intellectual history that traces how varying images of community have evolved over time and influenced criminological thinking and criminal justice policy. The authors outline the major ideas that have shaped the development of theory, research, and policy in the area of communities and crime. Each chapter examines the problem of the community through a defining critical or theoretical lens: the community as social disorganization; as a system of associations; as a symp…
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- Full title :Communities and crime : an enduring American challenge / Pamela Wilcox, Francis T. Cullen, and Ben Feldmeyer.
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"[This book provides] an intellectual history that traces how varying images of community have evolved over time and influenced criminological thinking and criminal justice policy. The authors outline the major ideas that have shaped the development of theory, research, and policy in the area of communities and crime. Each chapter examines the problem of the community through a defining critical or theoretical lens: the community as social disorganization; as a system of associations; as a symptom of larger structural forces; as a result of criminal subcultures; as a broken window; as crime opportunity; and as a site of resilience. Focusing on these changing images of community, the empirical adequacy of these images, and how they have resulted in concrete programs to reduce crime, [this book] theorizes about and reflects upon why some neighborhoods produce so much crime. The result is a tour of the dominant theories of place in social science today."--
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- Publication Date:©2018
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Temple University Press
- Place of Publication:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2018
The Physical Object
- Description:261 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781592139736, 1592139736, 9781592139743, 1592139744
- oclc:on1004769627
- LC Classification:HV6030
- Dewey Decimal:364.973
Table of Contents
Images of community in criminological thought -- Community as socially disorganized -- Community as a system -- Community as the truly disadvantaged -- Community as a criminal culture -- Community as a broken window -- Community as criminal opportunity -- Community as collective efficacy -- Communities and crime : looking ahead.
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