David Weisburd, John E. Eck, Anthony A. Braga

Place Matters

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book summarizes what we know about crime and place, and provides an agenda for future research in this area.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9781107029521
• ISBN-10: 110702952X
• Artikelnr.: 43857457

Autorenporträt

David Weisburd is a Distinguished Professor at George Mason University, Virginia and Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy. He also holds a joint appointment as the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law in Jerusalem. He serves as the Chief Science Advisor at the Police Foundation in Washington DC and is Chair of its Research Advisory Committee. Weisburd is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Criminology and of the Academy of Experimental Criminology. He is the recipient of many prestigious honors and awards including the Stockholm Prize in Criminology 2010, the American Society of Criminology's Sutherland Award in 2014, and the 2015 Israel Prize in Criminology. He has also been selected as the recipient of the American Society of Criminology's 2017 August Vollmer Award.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Crime places within criminological thought
2. The concentration of crime at place
3. Theories of crime and place
4. The importance of place in mainstream criminology and related fields: influences and lessons to be learned
5. Methods of place-based research
6. Reducing crime at high crime places: practice and evidence
7. Crime places in the criminological imagination.