When Crime Appears: The Role of Emergence

ISBN-13: 9780415883054 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 250 str.

Jean Marie McGloin; Christopher J. Sullivan; Leslie W. Kennedy

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In recent years, the idea of emergence, which suggests that observed patterns in behavior and events are not fully reductive and stem from complex lower-level interactions, has begun to take hold in the social sciences. Criminologists have started to use this framework to improve our general understanding of the etiology of crime and criminal behavior. When Crime Appears: The Role of Emergence is concerned with our ability to make sense of the complex underpinnings of the end-stage patterns and events that we see in studying crime and offers an early narrative on the concept of emergence as it pertains to criminological research. Collectively, the chapters in this volume provide a sense of why the emergence framework could be useful, outlines its core conceptual properties, provides some examples of its potential application, and presents some discussion of methodological and analytic issues related to its adoption.

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Part 1: Introduction  1. Moving Past the Person or the Context: Thinking About Crime as an Emergent Phenomenon Christopher Sullivan, Jean Marie McGloin, and Leslie Kennedy  Part 2: Explaining Crime  2. What is Emergence? R. Keith Sawyer  3. Going Back to the Beginning: Crime as a Process Travis Pratt and Jillian Turanovic  4. Does Everything Matter? Addressing the Problem of Causation and Explanation in the Study of Crime P.O. Wikstrom  5. Crime Emergence P. Jeffrey Brantingham and Martin B. Short  Part 3. Crime Emergence in Action  6. Individual and Situational Risk in the Emergence of Violent Events Among Youths on the Street Stephen Baron  7. Predatory Routines and Games Elizabeth Griffiths, Jessica M. Grosholz and Lesley Watson  8. The Emergence of Violence in Drug Market Settings Angela Taylor and Deanna Wilkinson  9. Risk Terrains and Crime Emergence Leslie W. Kennedy and Joel Caplan  10. Crime Emergence and Criminal Careers Tara Renae McGee and Alexis R. Piquero  Part 4: Studying Crime Emergence  11. Crime Emergence and Simulation Modeling. Modeling Crime Space Patricia Brantingham, Kathryn Wuschke, Richard Frank and Paul Brantingham  12. Measuring and Analyzing the Emergence of Crime Christopher Sullivan