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Crime, neighborhood, and public housing /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davies, Garth, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2006.
Series:Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Subjects:
Crime > Sociological aspects.
Public housing > Social aspects.
Social ecology.
Spatial behavior.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Crime diffusion in public housing neighborhoods
  • Crime and public housing
  • Public housing neighborhoods and the social ecology of crime
  • Informal social control, crime, and public housing
  • Crime diffusion as a sociostructural process
  • Research design and analytic framework
  • Spatial patterns and the diffusion of crime
  • Validation and diagnostics
  • Summary: Crime and public housing in context.