Neighborhood structures and crime : a spatial analysis / George Kikuchi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kikuchi, George, 1980-

Series:

Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

Criminal justice: recent scholarship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal statistics.

Neighborhoods.

Crime analysis.

Spatial analysis (Statistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Thinking in spatial terms is essential in understanding crime and criminal behavior. By integrating newly developed statistical methods from interdisciplinary fields with social disorganization theory and routine activities theory, Kikuchi examines the spatial and temporal dynamics of crime at the neighborhood level. Statistical analyses consistently indicate that neighborhood characteristics are important predictors of the spatial distribution of crime, longitudinal trends of crime, and even criminal offenders' target selection. Kikuchi endeavors to uncover the mechanism of how neighborhood c

Contents:

Introduction

Longitudinal analysis of crime rates at the neighborhood level

An analysis of spatially varying associations between neighborhood characteristics and crime

A spatial analysis of criminal offenders' target selection

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-196) and index.

ISBN:

9781593325572

1593325576

OCLC:

732955801