For centuries, criminologists have looked for scientific ways to study, understand, and ultimately prevent crime. In this volume, a unique offense, poaching, is explored in various contexts to determine what opportunity structures favor this crime and how situational crime prevention may reduce its prevalence. The data sources used range from publically available secondary data about animal populations, to interviews with hunters, to actual law enforcement data collected inside protected areas. Various methods are utilized to look for patterns in poaching behaviour regarding where poachers...
For centuries, criminologists have looked for scientific ways to study, understand, and ultimately prevent crime. In this volume, a unique offense,...
Research and theorizing on criminal decision making has not kept pace with recent developments in other fields of human decision making. Whereas criminal decision making theory is still largely dominated by cognitive approaches such as rational choice-based models, psychologists, behavioral economists and neuroscientists have found affect (i.e., emotions, moods) and visceral factors such as sexual arousal and drug craving, to play a fundamental role in human decision processes.
This book examines alternative approaches to incorporating affect into criminal decision making and...
Research and theorizing on criminal decision making has not kept pace with recent developments in other fields of human decision making. Wherea...
Environmental criminology is a term that encompasses a range of overlapping perspectives. At its core, the many strands of environmental criminology are bound by a common focus on the role that the immediate environment plays in the performance of crime, and a conviction that careful analyses of these environmental influences are the key to the effective investigation, control, and prevention of crime.
This new edition brings together leading theorists and practitioners in the field to provide a comprehensive, integrative coverage of the field of environmental criminology and crime...
Environmental criminology is a term that encompasses a range of overlapping perspectives. At its core, the many strands of environmental criminolog...
Remarkably little has been written about the theory and practice of applied police research, despite growing demand for evidence in crime prevention. Designed to fill this gap, this book offers a valuable new resource. It contains a carefully curated selection of contributions from some of the world's leading applied police researchers. Together, the authors have almost 300 years of relevant experience across three continents. The volume contains both practical everyday advice and calls for more fundamental change in how police research is created, consumed and applied. It covers diverse...
Remarkably little has been written about the theory and practice of applied police research, despite growing demand for evidence in crime prevention. ...
Crime Prevention through Environmental Design is a collection of approaches to deter criminal behaviour though physically altering the built environment in which communities reside. In recent years, the approach has been criticised for duplicating terminology and for failing to integrate successfully with other approaches. This book brings together leading scholars from around the world to consider the theory, terminology, concepts and methods of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design, draws on international research and develops new interdisciplinary perspectives. It explores...
Crime Prevention through Environmental Design is a collection of approaches to deter criminal behaviour though physically altering the built enviro...
Environmental criminology is a term that encompasses a range of overlapping perspectives. At its core, the many strands of environmental criminology are bound by a common focus on the role that the immediate environment plays in the performance of crime, and a conviction that careful analyses of these environmental influences are the key to the effective investigation, control, and prevention of crime.
This new edition brings together leading theorists and practitioners in the field to provide a comprehensive, integrative coverage of the field of environmental criminology and crime...
Environmental criminology is a term that encompasses a range of overlapping perspectives. At its core, the many strands of environmental criminolog...
Remarkably little has been written about the theory and practice of applied police research, despite growing demand for evidence in crime prevention. Designed to fill this gap, this book offers a valuable new resource. It contains a carefully curated selection of contributions from some of the world's leading applied police researchers. Together, the authors have almost 300 years of relevant experience across three continents.
The volume contains both practical everyday advice and calls for more fundamental change in how police research is created, consumed and applied. It...
Remarkably little has been written about the theory and practice of applied police research, despite growing demand for evidence in crime preventio...
The evidence-based Policing (EBP) movement has intensified in many countries around the world in recent years, resulting in a proliferation of policies and infrastructure to support such a transformation. This movement has come to be associated with particular methods of evaluation and systematic review, which have been drawn from what is assumed to prevail in medicine.
Given the credibility EBP is currently enjoying with both practitioners and government, it is timely to subject its underpinning logic to thoughtful scrutiny. This involves deliberating upon the meaning of evidence...
The evidence-based Policing (EBP) movement has intensified in many countries around the world in recent years, resulting in a proliferation of poli...
