Research Catalog

Title

Metropolitan crime patterns / edited by Robert M. Figlio, Simon Hakim, and George F. Rengert.

Publication

Monsey, N.Y. : Criminal Justice Press, 1986.

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Additional Authors

• Figlio, Robert M.
• Hakim, Simon, 1944-
• Hakim, Simon.
• Rengert, George F.

Description

xvii, 206 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Crime > United States
• Metropolitan areas > United States
• Suburban crimes > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part One: Crime Trends Across the Metropolis: The Effects of Urbanization and Neighborhood Characteristics on Criminal Victimization / Robert J. Sampson -- Ecological Evidence of the Hardening of the Inner City / Lyle W. Shannon -- Crime in Suburbia, 1960-1980 / John M. Stahura and C. Ronald Huff -- Part Two: Spatial Patterns in Criminal Behavior: Criminal Mobility and the Directional Component in Journeys ot Crime / C. Michael Costanzo, William C. Halperin and Nathan Gale -- Geographical and Temporal Changes among Robberies in Milwaukee / Ralph Lenz -- Mobility Triangle / Alicia Rand -- Predicting Crime Potential at Any Point on the City Map / Marcus Felson -- Part Three: Fear of Crime and Its Effects: Perceived and Actual Crime Risks / Paul J. Brantingham, Patricia L. Brantingham, and Diane Butcher -- Crime, Community Organization, and Causes of Neighborhood Decline / D. Garth Taylor, Richard P. Taub, and Bruce L. Peterson -- Part Four: Metropolitan Policing Expenditures: City-Suburban Variations in Police Expenditures / Roy Bahl and Greg Lewis.

ISBN

• 0960696016
• 0960696032 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^85051936^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library