The Social Ecology of CrimeJames Byrne, Robert J. Sampson The papers in this volume examine the underlying social causes of criminal behaviour. The authors are concerned with both social-structural (e.g., age, sex, race, and family composition) and ecological (e.g., crowding, etc.) characteristics as important units of analysis of neighborhoods, cities and crime. |
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Key Issues in the Social Ecology of Crime | 1 |
Neighborhood Family Structure and the Risk | 25 |
Fear and Its Relationship to Crime Neighborhood | 47 |
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