This book includes fieldwork from five continents and demonstrates the
breadth of techniques used by environmental criminologists to
understand crime. Environmental criminologists seek to understand
crime within the physical, and even digital, contexts where it occurs
– believing that crime occurs when people converge in time and space
and that the environment impacts the opportunity for crime.
Understanding the environment aids the researcher in answering an
essential question: what can be done to alter the place to prevent or
reduce crime? However, to understand complex environmental influences,
researchers need to engage in fieldwork. Fieldwork involves
researchers entering the environment they are studying to observe,
listen, and experience the surroundings in a way that influences their
understanding of the place and people in the environment. This book
highlights the broad array of crime types – from package theft in
the suburbs to poaching in the Nile basin – that environmental
criminology is well suited to address. Finally, it advances methods
and techniques, tests established protocols, and offers reflections on
experiences during fieldwork, demonstrating the value of the
techniques for environmental criminology and offering solutions to
crime problems. The chapters in this book were originally published in
special issues of Criminal Justice Studies.
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ISBN
9781000564839
Publisert
2022
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Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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