This chapter begins with a brief review of intellectual legacy of social-mechanistic theory and
the basic ideas that animate collective efficacy theory. The concept of collective efficacy …

Children's neighborhood contexts are defined by rising socioeconomic inequality and
segregation. This article reviews several decades of research on how neighborhood …

The study of crime has focused primarily on why particular people commit crime or why
specific communities have higher crime levels than others. In The Criminology of Place …

Drawing on the work of Allan Schnaiberg, this book returns political economy to green
criminology and examines how the expansion of capitalism shapes environmental law …

Objectives. To describe associations between neighborhood racial and economic
segregation and violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods. For 13 US cities, we …

Much of the research on police—citizen relations has focused on adults, not youth. Given
that adolescents and particularly young males are more likely than adults to have …

Prior studies of recidivism have focused almost exclusively on individual‐level
characteristics of offenders and their offenses to explore the correlates of reoffending …

The present study examined relations among neighborhood structural and social
characteristics, parenting practices, peer group affiliations, and delinquency among a group …

Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Ninth Edition, is a highly acclaimed textbook
offering a broad perspective on criminological theory. It provides students of criminology and …

Using a multilevel comparative framework, we propose that politically receptive city contexts
facilitate the viability of marginalized neighborhoods. To illustrate this proposition, we …