Combining insights from two distinct research traditions-the communities and crime tradition that focuses on why some neighborhoods have more crime than others, and the burgeoning crime and place literature that focuses on crime in micro-geographic units-this book expores the spatial scale of crime.
* Provides a unique perspective on how to consider the spatial patterns of where and when crime occurs
* Offers a cutting-edge perspective on the plethora of data produced by the growing number of studies of crime in neighborhoods
* Bridges the areas of Crime and Place and the area of Communities and Crime
John R. Hipp is Professor in the Departments of Criminology, Law and Society, and Sociology, at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests focus on how neighborhoods change over time, how that change both affects and is affected by neighborhood crime, and the role networks and institutions play in that change. He approaches these questions using quantitative methods as well as social network analysis. He has published substantive work in such journals as American Sociological Review, Criminology, Social Forces, Social Problems, Mobilization, City & Community, Urban Studies, and Journal of Urban Affairs. He has published methodological work in such journals as Sociological Methodology, Psychological Methods, and Structural Equation Modeling.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Understanding Crime in Neighborhoods
Chapter 2. A General Theory of Spatial Crime Patterns: Explaining Where Crime Occurs
Chapter 3. What Is a Neighborhood? Spatial Social Networks and Egohoods
Chapter 4. How Do We Learn About Crime and Disorder?
Chapter 5. How Do Residents Respond to Neighborhood Crime?: The EVLN Model
Chapter 6. Why Doesn't Everyone Choose Voice?
Chapter 7. Social Distance, Physical Distance, and Social Networks
Chapter 8. Temporal Scale: Stability and Dynamic Neighborhoods
Chapter 9. Larger Units of Analysis: How Do Small-Scale Processes Scale Up?
Chapter 10. Conclusion: Where Are the Implications Of All This?