Social, Ecological and Environmental Theories of Crime

Part 1 The Early Days - Human Ecology: The study of the delinquent as a person, Ernest W. Burgess; The ecological approach to the study of the human community, Roderick D. McKenzie; Human ecology, Robert E. Park; Ecology and human ecology, Amos H. Hawley.; Part 2 Social Disorganization and Beyond: The neighborhood and child conduct, Henry D. McKay; A rejoinder, Clifford R. Shaw; The conflict of values in delinquency areas, Solomon Kobrin; Community structure and crime: testing social disorganization theory, Robert J. Sampson and W. Byron Groves.; Part 3 The Focus on Deteriorating Neighborhoods: Dangerous places: crime and residential environment, Dennis W. Roncek; Community change and patterns of delinquency, Robert J. Bursik Jr and Jim Webb; Broken windows, James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling; Neighborhood and delinquency: an assessment of contextual effects, Ora Simcha-Fagan and Joseph E. Schwartz; Neighborhood social capital as differential social organization: resident and leadership dimensions, Robert J. Sampson and Corina Graif.; Part 4 The Rise of Environmental Criminology: Crime prevention and control through environmental engineering, C. Ray Jeffery; The spatial patterning of burglary, Paul J. Brantingham and Patricia L. Brantingham; Some effects of being female on criminal spatial behavior, George F. Rengert; Crime seen through a cone of resolution, Paul J. Brantingham, Delmar A. Dyreson and Patricia L. Brantingham; Cities and crime: a geographic model, Keith Harries; The effects of building size on personal crime and fear of crime, Oscar Newman and Karen A. Franck; The methods and measures of centrography and the spatial dynamics of rape, James L. LeBeau; Nodes, paths and edges: considerations on the complexity of crime and the physical environment, Patricia L. Brantingham and Paul J. Brantingham.; Part 5 Recent Works in Social, Ecological, and Environmental Criminology: Crime measures and the spatial analysis of criminal activity, Martin A. Andresen; A temporal constraint theory to explain opportunity-based spatial offending patterns, Jerry Ratcliffe; Where size matters: agglomeration economies of illegal drug markets in Philadelphia, Travis A. Taniguchi, George F. Rengert and Eric S. McCord; The future of Newman's defensible space theory: linking defensible space and the routine activities of place, Daniell M. Renald and Henk Elffers; Advancing science and research in criminal justice/criminology: complex systems theory and non-linear analyses, Jeffery T. Walker; Index.