Theoretical and empirical research investigating victimization and offending has largely
been either 'victim-focused'or 'offender-focused.'This approach ignores the potential …

Academic attention to violence and other forms of in-prison misconduct is on the rise,
although most research continues to be framed within now stale perspectives. A broader …

SAGE has been part of the global academic community since 1965, supporting high quality
research and learning that transforms society and our understanding of individuals, groups …

Situational prevention seeks to reduce opportunities for specific categories of crime by
increasing the associated risks and difficulties and reducing the rewards. It is composed of …

Page 1 Neighborhoods and Crime Page 2 Page 3 Neighborhoods and Crime The Dimensions
of Effective Community Control Robert J. Bursik, Jr. Harold G. Grasmick LEXINGTON BOOKS …

We extend the routine activity perspective's situational analysis of crime to individual
offending and to a broad range of deviant behaviors. In this view, unstructured socializing …

Increasing evidence shows great diversity in the effects of the criminal sanction. Legal
punishment either reduces, increases, or has no effect on future crimes, depending on the …

Systems theory is the basic theoretical model underlying most contemporary family therapy.
In this accessible introduction, the author traces how systems theory gave rise to family …

Although “social support” is present as a theme in many criminological writings, it has not
been identified explicitly as a concept capable of organizing theory and research in …

Routine activity theory predicts that changes in legitimate opportunity structures (eg,
technology) can increase the convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets in the …