The study of crime has focused primarily on why particular people commit crime or why specific communities have higher crime levels than others. In The Criminol

The book summarizes what we know about crime and place, and provides an agenda for future research in this area.

Based on a 16-year longitudinal study of crime in Seattle, Washington.

This book provides the best of both worlds-- authored text sections with carefully selected accompanying readings covering criminological theory from past to pr

Across America, crime is a consistent public concern. The authors have produced a comprehensive work on major criminological theories, combining classical crimi