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Tracking the mobility of crime : new methodologies and geographies in modeling the diffusion of offending
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ISBN: 1443825344 9781443825344 1443825050 9781443825054 Year: 2010 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars,

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Recently, increased attention has been given to the social and environmental context in which criminal offending occurs. This new interest in the human ecology of crime is largely demographic, both in terms of subject matter and increasingly in terms of


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Geography and drug addiction
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ISBN: 1281794910 9786611794910 1402085095 1402085087 Year: 2008 Publisher: Dordrecht ; London : Springer,

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The research in this book on the geographical context of drug addiction contributes to better understanding the etiology of addiction, its diffusion, its interaction with geographically variable environmental, social, and economic factors, and the strategies for its treatment and prevention. This book explores links between geography and drug abuse and identifies research ideas, connections, and research pathways which point to some promising avenues for future work in this area. The topics explored in Geography and Drug Addiction include: Spatial patterns of drug use and addiction Linking spatial models with drug abuse research Interaction of social and environmental factors with biochemical processes of addiction Locational analyses of drug addiction treatment and service delivery facilities Neighborhood scale studies of geographic factors (including the built environment) and their interaction with drug addiction, treatment, or prevention Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to better understanding and respond to drug addiction Spatial diffusion modeling of addictive drug usage and its changing characteristics, including also predictive modeling Social epidemiology and GIS This book will serve as an excellent resource to geographers and drug abuse researchers, including sociologists, epidemiologists, social scientists in general and public health researchers, both in policy and academia.


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Pockets of crime : broken windows, collective efficacy, and the criminal point of view
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ISBN: 0226775003 1281966584 9786611966584 9780226775005 9781281966582 9780226774985 0226774988 9780226774992 0226774996 Year: 2007 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Why, even in the same high-crime neighborhoods, do robbery, drug dealing, and assault occur much more frequently on some blocks than on others? One popular theory is that a weak sense of community among neighbors can create conditions more hospitable for criminals, and another proposes that neighborhood disorder-such as broken windows and boarded-up buildings-makes crime more likely. But in his innovative new study, Peter K. B. St. Jean argues that we cannot fully understand the impact of these factors without considering that, because urban space is unevenly developed, different

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