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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452232903321

Autore

Davies Garth <1967->

Titolo

Crime, neighborhood, and public housing [[electronic resource] /] / Garth Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2006

ISBN

1-59332-222-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Collana

Criminal justice recent scholarship

Disciplina

364.2/56

Soggetti

Crime - Sociological aspects

Public housing - Social aspects

Social ecology

Spatial behavior

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-190) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Crime diffusion in public housing neighborhoods -- Crime and public housing -- Public housing neighborhoods and the social ecology of crime -- Informal social control, crime, and public housing -- Crime diffusion as a sociostructural process -- Research design and analytic framework -- Spatial patterns and the diffusion of crime -- Validation and diagnostics -- Summary: Crime and public housing in context.