Format:
Online-Ressource (342 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780814725498
Series Statement:
New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law series v.12
Content:
For close to a century, the field of community criminology has examined the causes and consequences of community crime and delinquency rates. Nevertheless, there is still a lot we do not know about the dynamics behind these connections. In this book, Ralph Taylor argues that obstacles to deepening our understanding of community/crime links arise in part because most scholars have overlooked four fundamental concerns: how conceptual frames depend on the geographic units and/or temporal units used; how to establish the meaning of theoretically central ecological empirical indicators; and how to
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Overview; 2 Three Core Community Crime Sequences; 3 Spatial Scaling I: Relevance and Conceptual Importance; 4 Spatial Scaling II: Metatheorizing about Community-Crime Linkages; 5 Spatial Scaling III: Understanding Place Criminology and Hot Spots; 6 Temporal Scaling I: Cycles and Changes; 7 Temporal Scaling II: A Temporally Dynamic Metamodel; 8 Ecological Indicators: Model Comparisons and Establishing Meaning; 9 Selectivity Bias: Metamodels, Selection Effects, and Neighborhood Effects; 10 Integration and Metatheoretical Concerns: Is Progress Possible?
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About the Online AppendicesNotes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; About the Author
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814708033
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814725498
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Community Criminology : Fundamentals of Spatial and Temporal Scaling, Ecological Indicators, and Selectivity Bias
Language:
English
Keywords:
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