Urban Criminology: The City, Disorder, Harm and Social Control

ISBN-13: 9780415715317 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 296 str.

Rowland Atkinson; Gareth Millington

Opis

Urban Criminology is an accessible and exciting textbook and introduces students to the wide range of urban criminological studies via a coherent and thematic guide to urban life viewed through questions of crime, disorder and social harm.

Spis treści

1. Understand crime, understand the city  2. Place and locality: neighbourhoods and crime  3. Urban economies  4. Governance and social control in the urban arena  5. Policing, the police and social order in the city  6. Urban violence  7. Housing systems, housing tenure and the dis/orderly city  8. The political economy of urban safety