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  • Cutting Crime Using the Rule of the Few

    by Shannon J. Linning, Daniel W. Gerard, John E. Eck ...
    Series series Routledge Series on Practical and Evidence-Based Policing
    Based on decades of research, this book reveals how the rule of the few can redirect your focus to create effective crime control policies. Many crime reduction strategies fail because they apply common crime fallacies. They assume that: solutions to crime need to be complicated, crime is widespread, residents matter the most, more arrests reduce crime, and police can solve all crime problems. At ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Writing with Sweet Clarity

    by John E. Eck ...
    In this book, criminologist and experienced educator John E. Eck draws on decades of academic and professional writing experience to provide an analytical toolkit for clear professional writing. This book focuses on the essential objective of clarity, and addresses topics seldom addressed in other books, such as ethics beyond plagiarism; writing with co-authors; organizing complex ideas; using ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Place Management and Crime

    Ownership and Property Rights as a Source of Social Control

    by John E. Eck, Shannon J. Linning, Tamara D. Herold ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This brief describes the theory and evidence of a form of social control known as place management. Created by property owners, place management is an alternative to the two other domains of social control: formally created by the state and informally created by residents. It helps explain the high concentration of crime and disorder at a relatively small proportion of addresses and facilities. ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Whose 'Eyes on the Street' Control Crime?

    Expanding Place Management into Neighborhoods

    by Shannon J. Linning, John E. Eck ...
    Series series Elements in Criminology
    Jane Jacobs coined the phrase 'eyes on the street' to depict those who maintain order in cities. Most criminologists assume these eyes belong to residents. In this Element we show that most of the eyes she described belonged to shopkeepers and property owners. They, along with governments, wield immense power through property ownership and regulation. From her work, we propose a Neo-Jacobian ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Environmental Corrections

    A New Paradigm for Supervising Offenders in the Community

    by Lacey Schaefer, Francis T. Cullen, John E. Eck ...
    A new paradigm for supervising offenders in the communityEnvironmental Corrections is an innovative guide filled with rich insights and strategies for probation and parole officers to effectively integrate offenders back into the community and reduce recidivism. Authors Lacey Schaefer, Francis T. Cullen, and John E. Eck move beyond traditional models for interventions and build directly on the ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Become a Problem-Solving Crime Analyst

    by Ronald Clarke, John E. Eck ...
    Crime analysis has become an increasingly important part of policing and crime prevention, and thousands of specialist crime analysts are now employed by police forces worldwide. This is the first book to set out the principles and practice of crime analysis, and is designed to be used both by crime analysts themselves, by those responsible for the training of crime analysts and teaching its ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Place Matters

    Criminology for the Twenty-First Century

    by David Weisburd, John E. Eck, Anthony A. Braga, Cody W. Telep, Breanne Cave, Kate Bowers, Gerben Bruinsma, Charlotte Gill, Julie Hibdon, Joshua C. Hinkle, Shane D. Johnson, Brian Lawton, Cynthia Lum, George Rengert, Travis Taniguchi, Sue-Ming Yang, Elizabeth R. Groff, Jerry H. Ratcliffe ...
    Over the last two decades, there has been increased interest in the distribution of crime and other antisocial behavior at lower levels of geography. The focus on micro geography and its contribution to the understanding and prevention of crime has been called the 'criminology of place'. It pushes scholars to examine small geographic areas within cities, often as small as addresses or street ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Unraveling the Crime-Place Connection, Volume 22

    New Directions in Theory and Policy

    Edited by David Weisburd, John E. Eck ...
    Series series Advances in Criminological Theory
    Unraveling the Crime-Place Connection examines in a new light how places enhance our understanding of crime and its control. While there has been much work in this area focused on policy, few have examined the underlying theories that inform this work. Theory has played a secondary role in the "criminology of place," and this volume brings it to the forefront of scholarly concerns.Each part and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Criminology

    Edited by Gerben J.N. Bruinsma, Shane D. Johnson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The study of how the environment, local geography, and physical locations influence crime has a long history that stretches across many research traditions. These include the neighborhood effects approach developed in the 1920s, the criminology of place, and a newer approach that attends to the perception of crime in communities. Aided by new technologies and improved data-reporting in recent ... Read more

    $151.19 USD

  • Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis

    Edited by Richard Wortley, Michael Townsley ...
    Series series Crime Science Series
    Environmental criminology is a term that encompasses a range of overlapping perspectives. At its core, the many strands of environmental criminology are bound by a common focus on the role that the immediate environment plays in the performance of crime, and a conviction that careful analyses of these environmental influences are the key to the effective investigation, control, and prevention of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Criminal Act

    The Role and Influence of Routine Activity Theory

    Edited by M. Andresen, G. Farrell ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume provides a unique collection of essays in honour of the work of Marcus Felson and his notable contribution to routine activity theory, environmental criminology and the discipline more broadly.Chapter 5 of this book is open access under a CC BY license. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology

    A Text and Reader

    by Christine Tartaro ...
    This book explains and illustrates criminal justice research topics, including ethics in research, research design, causation, operationalization of variables, sampling, methods of data collection (including surveys), reliance on existing data, validity, and reliability. For each approach, the book addresses the procedures and issues involved, the method’s strengths and drawbacks, and examples of ... Read more

    $66.99 USD