Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, Second Edition is a vital book for anyone involved in architectural design, space management, and urban planning. The concepts ...

He also reveals the crucial role that determinations of, and contests over, merit have played in both societies - they have helped to organize educational systems, justify ...

This book provides an examination of the major criminological perspectives on the presence of crime and disorder in residential communities. Perspectives are examined with a ...

This volume provides an update on the young field of environmental criminology -- the study of criminal activity in terms of man's interaction with the environment, and the ...

The criminal justice system in the United States is best described as a system of related, but not necessarily co-ordinated, agencies. Accountable to different branches of ...

Full coverage of all the major schools of thought Biological, Social, Physchological, Economic, etc. While other texts focus primarily sociological causation of crime, Jeffery ...