Communities and crime / edited by Albert J. Reiss, Jr., and Michael Tonry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reiss, Albert J., Jr., 1922-2006.

Tonry, Michael H.

Series:

Crime and justice (Chicago, Ill.) ; v. 8.

Crime and justice, 0192-3234 ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime.

Criminals.

Community organization.

Victims of crimes.

Physical Description:

viii, 421 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1986]

Summary:

Examining the ways in which communities both affect crime and are affected by it, this volume seeks to explain the variation of crime among socially organized communities. Traditional information about crime is usually described in terms of specific events involving individual offenders and victims. Crime statistics regarding offense and victimization are computed according to individual attributes, such as age, income, race, or gender. Thus the fact that the risk of crime is a function of where we are and what we are doing, as well as of who we are, is often obscured.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 413-416.

ISBN:

0226808025

OCLC:

16922641