Public Places Urban Spaces provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, theory
and practices of urban design for those new to the subject and for those requiring a clear …

Food fraud, including the more defined subcategory of economically motivated adulteration,
is a food risk that is gaining recognition and concern. Regardless of the cause of the food …

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 …

The rational choice approach to offending assumes that when criminals offend they do so
because crime provides the most effective means of achieving desired benefits (Clarke and …

As any police officer who has ever walked a beat or worked a crime scene knows, the street
has its hot spots, patterns, and rhythms: drug dealers work their markets, prostitutes stroll …

Introductory chapters explain the role of scientific inquiry in criminal justice, theory and
criminal justice research, and causation and validity. Five chapters on the structuring of …

Conventionally, crime is regarded principally as harm or wrong and the dominant ordering
practices arise post hoc. In the emerging pre-crime society, crime is conceived essentially as …

This chapter traces and evaluates both the historic emergence of the modern 'preventive
turn'as well as the elaboration and institutionalisation of crime prevention and community …

This book arises from a three-year study of Preventive Justice directed by Professor Andrew
Ashworth and Professor Lucia Zedner at the University of Oxford. The study seeks to …

Crime Analysis With Crime Map**, Fourth Edition provides students and practitioners with
a solid foundation for understanding the conceptual nature and practice of crime analysis to …