Titlebook: Urban Crime, Criminals, and Victims; The Swedish Experien Per-Olof H. Wikstr?m Book 1991 Springer Science+Business Media New York 1991 Crim

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Housing, Population Composition, and Offending,me—that all social group variation in offending is due to the effects of differential patterns of residence for different social groups—although there are no scholars, to this author’s knowledge, who have claimed this to be the case. Not even Shaw and McKay (1969), who strongly claimed the great imp

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Book 1991gument for the importance of the study of crime in urban communities and for the linking of the ecological and individual traditions in theory and research on crime. A review of the literature on crime in urban environments shows, not unexpectedly, that Anglo-American research heavily dominates the

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The Urban Offender,erent kinds of situations. The propensity to offend shows a general variation with demographic and social characteristics such as sex, age, social class, and so on, as most textbooks in criminology will report (e.g., Nettler, 1974 pp. 98–135).

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Introduction, last decade there has been a significant upswing in theory and research on crime in the urban environment. Also, new areas of theory and research into urban crime have come into focus. (For overviews see Brantingham & Brantingham, 1984; Davidson, 1981.) One very good example of the increasing inter

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The Urban Offender,ly in the urban population, ranging from those who occasionally may fall for an extreme temptation (the pure opportunistic offender) to those who more regularly search for opportunities to commit crimes (the chronic offender). (See, e.g., Leblanc & Frechette, 1989, pp. 181–182). As to violent behavi

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The Social Contexts of Urban Crime,e classifications. The legal definition specifies kinds of behavior that are illegal (e.g., hitting, vandalizing, and stealing) and sometimes specific under what conditions they are illegal but normally gives rather limited information about the social contexts in which a criminal act takes place.1

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The Urban Victim,rtant aspects of the social context of the crime. In this chapter, the focus will be on the victim. Building on the findings from the contextual analysis and some further analyses, victimization will be discussed in more depth. The data used will be taken predominantly from the Stockholm 1982 Crime

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