Gated communities have long been seen as a rational response to rising crime levels, yet
very little is known about the extent to which residing in a gated community actually reduces …

Tests of social disorganization theory are commonplace in international criminological
literature. Indeed a plethora of studies had emerged over the past seventy years examining …

High and rising levels of crime plague post-apartheid South Africa. A common explanation
for these high crime rates relates the country's unique socio-political past to a system of …

While the high rate of crime in South Africa has received much international attention, mainly
focused on violent crime, the vast majority of offences reported to the South African Police …

This paper analyses the periodicity of violent and property crimes committed in Tshwane,
South Africa from 2001 to 2006. Conventional monthly, daily and hourly variations in these …

More than three decades of war in Angola have created a generation of disaffected children,
poorly educated and living in crime-infested urban neighbourhoods where violence appears …

This paper explores the spatio-temporal patterns of household crimes in Durban, South
Africa, using precinct-level population and decadal crime data for burglary and robbery at …

Crime and violence are serious issues in informal settlements around the world. To date,
there is a dearth of evidence about the causes of and effective strategies for reducing and …

Within the broad context of South African criminology, an aspect that has stood out,
particularly over the last decade, is the inter-disciplinary contributions of other disciplines to …

Se realizó una caracterización multivariante y una posterior cartografía de los perfiles de
una muestra de 164 delincuentes ecológicos del estado de Barinas, Venezuela, con base …