3. Spatial Aspects of Criminal Behavior

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Contributors IX
4. Foreword XI
5. Introduction 1
6. Part 1. The Spatial Perspective
7. Introduction 3
8. 1. Crime Area Research 5
9. 2. Urban Crime and Spatial Perspectives: The British Experience 26
10. 3. Spatial Aspects of Criminal Behavior 47
11. 4. The Spatial Ecology of the Criminal Law 58
12. Part 2. Empirical Spatial Analysis
13. Interurban
14. Introduction 73
15. 5. Alternative Measures of Crime 77
16. 6. Crime, Occupation, and Economic Specialization 93
17. 7. Criminogenic Correlates of Intermetropolitan Crime Rates, 1960 and 1970 109
18. Intraurban
19. Introduction 123
20. 8. The Social Area Structure of Suburban Crime 127
21. 9. Centrographic Analysis of Crime 146
22. 10. Mental Maps, Social Characteristics, and Criminal Mobility 156
23. 11. Characteristics and Typology of the Journey to Crime 167
24. 12. A Spatial Analysis of Retail/Commercial Homicides in Detroit: 1968–1974 181
25. Psychospatial
26. Introduction 191
27. 13. Area-Images and Behavior: An Alternative Perspective for Understanding Urban Crime 193
28. 14. Cognitive Mapping and the Subjective Geography of Crime 205
29. 15. Systematic Sociospatial Variation in Perceptions of Crime Location and Severity 219
30. Part 3. Applications of Spatial Approaches
31. Introduction 247
32. 16. The Display of Geographic Information in Crime Analysis 249
33. 17. A Geographically-Based Crime Problem Identification System – Its Application to the Analysis and Prevention of Crime 264
34. 18. Theory and Practice in Urban Police Response 276
35. Conclusion 291
36. Name Index 293
37. Subject Index 297