{"product_id":"communities-and-crime-an-enduring-american-challenge-paperback-softback-9781592139743","title":"Communities and Crime; An Enduring American Challenge (Paperback \/ softback) 9781592139743","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCommunities and Crime\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Enduring American Challenge\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePamela Wilcox (Author), Francis T. Cullen (Author), Ben Feldmeyer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781592139743\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 December 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e282 pages, 10 line drawings\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.399 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Wilcox, Cullen, and Feldmeyer provide an intellectual history of communities and crime in the US. They look at seven perceptions of the inner-city community—community as socially disorganized, as system, as truly disadvantaged, as criminal culture, as broken window, as criminal opportunity, and as collective efficacy—devoting a chapter to each. The authors emphasize the macro context, i.e., the idea that though particular images of community convey static differences, inner-city criminalistic communities are not islands but have distinct ongoing linkages with surrounding communities and neighborhoods and with the larger region of the city.... Summing Up: Recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/temple.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e49e3b3e54d82f4290d30fc59\u0026amp;id=846b23305d\u0026amp;e=26e057cfb3\"' target='\"_blank\"'\u003eChoice\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSocial scientists have long argued over the links between crime and place. The authors of \u003ci\u003eCommunities and Crime\u003c\/i\u003e provide an intellectual history that traces how varying images of community have evolved over time and influenced criminological thinking and criminal justice policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe authors outline the major ideas that have shaped the development of theory, research, and policy in the area of communities and crime. Each chapter examines the problem of the community through a defining critical or theoretical lens: the community as social disorganization; as a system of associations; as a symptom of larger structural forces; as a result of criminal subcultures; as a broken window; as crime opportunity; and as a site of resilience. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFocusing on these changing images of community, the empirical adequacy of these images, and how they have resulted in concrete programs to reduce crime, \u003ci\u003eCommunities and Crime \u003c\/i\u003etheorizes about and reflects upon why some neighborhoods produce so much crime. The result is a tour of the dominant theories of place in social science today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52620614566168,"sku":"9781592139743","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/communities-and-crime-an-enduring-american-challenge-paperback-softback-9781592139743","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}