Martin A Andresen

The Science of Crime Measurement

Issues for Spatially-Referenced Crime Data

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Produktbeschreibung

This book builds on a growing body of literature on crime measurement and offers a comprehensive account of this growing subfield of criminology and speaks to wider debates in crime analysis, environmental criminology and crime prevention

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780415856096
• ISBN-10: 0415856094
• Artikelnr.: 39558627

Autorenporträt

Martin A. Andresen is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies at Simon Fraser University, Canada. His research interests include crime measurement, spatial crime analysis, environmental criminology, and the geography of crime. This research has been published in leading journals on both criminology and geography including: Applied Geography, British Journal of Criminology, Environment and Planning A, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and Urban Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The science of crime measurement 2. Ambient populations and the
calculation of crime rates and risk 3. The ambient population and crime
analysis 4. Diurnal movements and the ambient population: an application to
municipal level crime rate calculations 5. Measuring crime specialization:
the location quotient 6. Crime specialization across the Canadian provinces
and Metro Vancouver's municipalities 7. Location quotients, ambient
populations and the spatial analysis of crime in Vancouver, Canada 8. The
(in)appropriateness of aggregating across crime types 9. The spatial
dimension of crime seasonality 10. Testing the stability of crime patterns:
implications for theory and policy 11. Spatial heterogeneity in crime
analysis 12. Future directions in the science of crime measurement.