This book provides a sociological perspective on crime and criminal justice by treating social
structure and social inequality as central themes in the study of crime—and major factors in …

Building on the insights of the self-efficacy literature, this study highlights that collective
efficacy is a collective perception that comes from a process. This study emphasizes that 1) …

Urban crime prevention remains a critical challenge intertwined with socioeconomic
disparities. This study investigates the spatial nexus between urban deprivation and crime …

Purpose Prior studies have largely been unable to account for how variations in inequality
across larger areas might impact crime rates in neighborhoods. We examine this broader …

Objectives To determine whether membership in youth gangs provides a unique social
forum for violence amplification. This study examines whether gang membership increases …

Background Maternal exposure to adversity during pregnancy has been found to affect
infant brain development; however, the specific effect of prenatal crime exposure on …

Het is van belang de realiteit van de nieuwe verscheidenheid onder ogen te zien. Inwoners,
overheden, publieke en private organisaties dienen toegerust te zijn voor het omgaan met …

Purpose To examine if, and how, spatial crime patterns are explained by one or more
underlying crime-general patterns. Methods A set of Bayesian multivariate spatial models …

This paper studies the relationship between homicide rate and socioeconomic factors at
community area level in Chicago from 1960 to 1995. Most of prior studies of social …

Criminal activities are often unevenly distributed over space. The literature shows that the
occurrence of crime is frequently concentrated in particular neighbourhoods and is related to …