Over the past 50 years, researchers in the United States and abroad have debated the
inherent inequities within justice systems that contribute to the underreporting of crime to the …

This review, published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Code of the Street
(1999), considers the legacies of Elijah Anderson's groundbreaking analysis of the …

Proactive policing, as a strategic approach used by police agencies to prevent crime, is a
relatively new phenomenon in the United States. It developed from a crisis in confidence in …

Legal socialization is the process by which children and adolescents acquire their law
related values, attitudes, and reasoning capacities. Such values and attitudes, in particular …

Ethnographic evidence reveals that many crimes in poor minority neighborhoods evade
criminal justice sanctioning, thus leading to a negative association between the proportion of …

Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Ninth Edition, is a highly acclaimed textbook
offering a broad perspective on criminological theory. It provides students of criminology and …

Objectives Police-recorded crimes are used by police forces to document community
differences in crime and design spatially targeted strategies. Nevertheless, crimes known to …

Extant research has provided support for the micro‐level predictions of rational choice
models of crime. Yet, a central feature of the rational choice perspective in the broader social …

This report summarises the most recent evidence on the relationship between
socioeconomic status and the psychological, social and cultural processes that underpin …

For decades, criminologists have been aware of the severe consequences of the dark figure
of police records for crime prevention strategies. Crime surveys are developed to address …