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UNISA996582050303316 |
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Autore |
Taylor Ralph B. |
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Titolo |
Community Criminology : Fundamentals of Spatial and Temporal Scaling, Ecological Indicators, and Selectivity Bias / / Ralph B. Taylor |
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New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (342 p.) |
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Collana |
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New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law ; ; 12 |
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Classificazione |
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SOC004000SOC026000SOC024000 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology |
Communities |
Criminology |
Crime - Sociological aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Overview -- 2 Three Core Community Crime Sequences -- 3 Spatial Scaling I -- 4 Spatial Scaling II -- 5 Spatial Scaling III -- 6 Temporal Scaling I -- 7 Temporal Scaling II -- 8 Ecological Indicators -- 9 Selectivity Bias -- 10 Integration and Metatheoretical Concerns -- About the Online Appendices -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 think about the causes and consequences of non-random selection dynamics. The volume organizes these four conceptual |
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