When Crime Appears (eBook, ePUB)

The Role of Emergence
Redaktion: McGloin, Jean; Kennedy, Leslie; Sullivan, Christopher

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together work from a unique conceptual perspective that helps to better understand the complex relationships that give rise to crime.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136624483
• Artikelnr.: 38404394

Autorenporträt

Jean Marie McGloin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University-Newark in 2004. Her research primarily focuses on groups and crime and offending specialization. Her recent publications have appeared in Criminology, the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and the Journal of Quantitative Criminology. Christopher J. Sullivan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. He received a doctorate from Rutgers University's School of Criminal Justice in 2005. His research interests include developmental criminology; juvenile delinquency and prevention policy; and research methodology and analytic methods. His recent work has appeared in Criminology, Prevention Science, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and Criminal Justice and Behavior. Leslie W. Kennedy is University Professor of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University -Newark. He is also the Director of the Rutgers Center on Public Security. Dr. Kennedy's current research in public security builds upon his previous research in event analysis and understanding the social contexts in which hazards to society are identified and deterred.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction 1. Moving Past the Person or the Context: Thinking
About Crime as an Emergent Phenomenon Christopher Sullivan, Jean Marie
McGloin, and Leslie Kennedy Part 2: Explaining Crime 2. What is Emergence?
R. Keith Sawyer 3. Going Back to the Beginning: Crime as a Process Travis
Pratt and Jillian Turanovic 4. Does Everything Matter? Addressing the
Problem of Causation and Explanation in the Study of Crime P.O. Wikstrom
5. Crime Emergence P. Jeffrey Brantingham and Martin B. Short Part 3. Crime
Emergence in Action 6. Individual and Situational Risk in the Emergence of
Violent Events Among Youths on the Street Stephen Baron 7. Predatory
Routines and Games Elizabeth Griffiths, Jessica M. Grosholz and Lesley
Watson 8. The Emergence of Violence in Drug Market Settings Angela Taylor
and Deanna Wilkinson 9. Risk Terrains and Crime Emergence Leslie W. Kennedy
and Joel Caplan 10. Crime Emergence and Criminal Careers Tara Renae McGee
and Alexis R. Piquero Part 4: Studying Crime Emergence 11. Crime Emergence
and Simulation Modeling. Modeling Crime Space Patricia Brantingham, Kathryn
Wuschke, Richard Frank and Paul Brantingham 12. Measuring and Analyzing the
Emergence of Crime Christopher Sullivan