Communities and Crime
An Enduring American Challenge
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Publication
2017-12-01 - Temple University Press
Language
English
Word Count
70,500 words, Guess
Page Count
282 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27389035M
- ISBN-139781592139743
- ISBN-101592139744
- OCLC Control Number1004769627
- Library of Congress Control Number2017033586
and 1 more
- Amazon1592139744
Classifications
- LCCHV6030.W54 2018
Description
"[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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