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  title info:
    title: Putting Fear of Crime on the Map
    sub title: Investigating Perceptions of Crime Using Geographic Information Systems
  name:
    name part: Doran, Bruce J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Burgess, Melissa B.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 286 p. online resource.
  abstract: The impact of crime on society is well-known and well-documented. But fear of crime also takes a major toll, affecting individual mobility, neighborhood cohesion, and local economies, and is an increasingly important topic in criminology and other disciplines. In recent years, Geographic Information Systems technology has brought needed spatial dimensions to research into fear of crime. Putting Fear of Crime on the Map reviews these efforts, chronicling the evolution of both research and technology. Fear of crime is defined as a complex system of avoidance behaviors that paradoxically helps create conditions favorable to crime, and the authors summarize approaches used in understanding the problem. In later chapters, data from two landmark studies examine new ways of conceptualizing and addressing fear of crime offered by GIS technology, and the authors present innovative GIS-based methods for reducing fear of crime, as well as in monitoring the effectiveness of law enforcement and community initiatives. Key features of the book: · Historical and current trends in fear of crime research. · Analysis of fear of crime is a serious analytical and social problem. · Social/environmental theories explaining fear of crime. · Technical breakdown of Geographic Information Systems techniques used to map fear of crime. · Findings from eight years of studies of fear of crime using GIS technology. · Potential applications for fear mapping, and emerging areas for fear of crime research. Putting Fear of Crime on the Map is a unique source of information for graduate and postgraduate researchers in criminology, and policy makers.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Why is fear of crime a serious social problem? -- Chapter 3: What causes fear of crime?.-Chapter 4: Managing fear of crime -- Chapter 5: Investigating the fear of crime -- Chapter 6: The Wollongong Study -- Chapter 7: The Kings Cross Study -- Chapter 8: Future avenues for fear mapping: potential applications and improvements.
  note: by Bruce J. Doran, Melissa B. Burgess.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Criminology
  subject:
    topic: Human geography
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Criminology & Criminal Justice
  subject:
    topic: Human Geography
  subject:
    topic: Psychology, general
  classification: HV6001-7220.5
  classification: 364
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Series on Evidence-Based Crime Policy
  identifier: 9781441956477
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5647-7
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    record creation date: 110919
    record change date: 20151029211903.0
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