Urban Crime, Criminals, and Victims: The Swedish Experience in an Anglo-American Comparative Perspective (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781461390794)

Crime is largely an urban phenomenon, but the specifically urban and area dimen- sions of the social processes that are connected with crime have been seriously understated in much recent criminological work ... Such a claim could not have been made forty years ago. (Baldwin & Bottoms, 1976, p. 1). The above statement by Baldwin and Bottoms about the neglect in crimi- nology of the urban dimension of crime was made in the mid-1970s. However, in the last decade there has been a significant upswing in theory and research on crime in the urban environment. Also, new areas oftheory and research into urban crime have come into focus. (For overviews see Brantingham & Brantingham, 1984; Davidson, 1981.) One very good example of the increasing interest in urban crime is the recent volume of Crime and Justice entitled "Communities and Crime" (Reiss & Tonry, 1986), in which Reiss makes a strong argument for the importance of the study of crime in urban communities and for the linking of the ecological and individual traditions in theory and research on crime. A review of the literature on crime in urban environments shows, not unexpectedly, that Anglo-American research heavily dominates the scene (Wikstrom, 1982; 1987b). Hence, much of the experience we have on urban crime is based on North American and British research and theory.

Author: Per-Olof H. Wikström
ISBN-10: 1461390796
ISBN-13: 9781461390794
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 04/08/2013
Pages: 271
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.60d