Hakutulokset: Sarja elements in criminology
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A Framework for Addressing Violence and Serious Crime
This Element examines an increasingly important community crime prevention strategy - focused deterrence. This strategy seeks to change offender behavior by understanding …
Testing Criminal Career Theories in British and American Longitudinal Studies
Most criminological theories are not truly scientific, since they do not yield exact quantitative predictions of criminal career features, such as the prevalence and frequency of …
Legitimacy-Based Policing and the Promotion of Community Vitality
This Element presents the history, research, and future potential for an alternative and effective model of policing called 'legitimacy-based policing'. This model is driven by …
Using the Police Craft to Improve Patrol Officer Decision-Making
In this Element we build on our previous work conceptualizing a craft learning model for governing police discretion. We envision a model for harnessing patrol officers' craft …
Confronting School Violence
School violence is a significant social concern. To better understand its sources, a comprehensive meta-analysis of the school violence and victimization literature was undertaken. …
Making Sense of Youth Crime
This comparative empirical study of policing in the United States and France draws on the authors' ten years of field work to contend that the police in both countries should be …
Toward a Criminology of Terrorism
The study of terrorism represents one of the major turning points in criminology of the twenty-first century. In the space of just two decades, research on terrorism and political …
Developmental Criminology and the Crime Decline
Throughout the 1990s many countries around the world experienced the beginnings of what would later become the most significant and protracted decline in crime ever recorded. …
Whose 'Eyes on the Street' Control Crime?
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 …
Crime Dynamics
This Element reviews and augments research on changes over time in U.S. crime rates during the past several decades. Major topics include the data sources for studying crime …