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Neighborhood Structures and Crime : a Spatial Analysis.
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 n...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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El Paso :
LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC,
2010.
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| Colección: | Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (214 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781593325572 1593325576 1593323964 9781593323967 |