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Crime, neighborhood, and public housing [electronic resource] / Garth Davies. - New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2006. - vii, 192 p. : ill. - Criminal justice recent scholarship . - Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC) .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-190) and index.

Introduction: Crime diffusion in public housing neighborhoods -- Crime and public housing -- Public housing neighborhoods and the social ecology of crime -- Informal social control, crime, and public housing -- Crime diffusion as a sociostructural process -- Research design and analytic framework -- Spatial patterns and the diffusion of crime -- Validation and diagnostics -- Summary: Crime and public housing in context.


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1593321449 (alk. paper) 9781593321444




Crime--Sociological aspects.
Public housing--Social aspects.
Social ecology.
Spatial behavior.


Electronic books.

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