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The criminology of place [electronic resource] : street segments and our understanding of the crime problem / David Weisburd, Elizabeth R. Groff, and Sue-Ming Yang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weisburd, David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminology.
- Geographical offender profiling.
- Crime prevention.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : ill.
- Other Title:
- criminology of place
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- The authors present a new way of looking at crime by examining why specific streets in a city have specific crime trends over time. Reorienting the study of crime by focusing not on individuals and communities, but on small units of geography the authors identify a large group of possible crime risk and protective factors for street segments and an array of interventions that could be implemented to address them.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Oct. 31, 2012).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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