David J. Evans - The Geography of Crime

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THE GEOGRAPHY OF CRIME

THE GEOGRAPHY OF CRIME

Edited by
DAVID J. EVANS
AND DAVID T. HERBERT

First published in 1989

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1989 D. Evans and D. Herbert

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The
Geography
Of Crime

Edited by David J. Evans
and David T. Herbert

First published 1989
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
29 West 35th Street, New York NY 10001

1989 D. Evans and D. Herbert

Printed and bound in Great Britain by Mackays of Chatham PLC, Kent

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any fonn or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any infonnation storage or retrieval system; without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

The Geography of crime.

1. Crime. Geographical factors
I. Evans, David J. (David John), 1947
II. Herbert, David T. 1935 Dec 24
364.22
ISBN 0-415-00453-5

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The Geography of crime / edited by David J. Evans and David Herbert.

p. cm.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-415-00453-5
1. Crime and criminals. 2. Man Influence of environment. 3. Environmental psychology. 4. Crime prevention. I. Evans, David J., 1947- . II. Herbert, David T.

David T. Herbert

Mike Hough and Helen Lewis

Keith D. Harries and Stephen J. Stadler

R.N. Davidson

David J. Evans

Alice Coleman

S.P. Bartnicki

George Rengert

Trevor Bennett

Susan J. Smith

John Lowman

R.I. Mawby

Nicholas R. Fyfe

Linda Harvey and Ken Pease

Gloria Laycock and Kevin Heal

Patricia L. Brantingham

Slak Bartnicki, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland

Trevor Bennett, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge

Pat Brantingham, Department of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia

Alice Coleman, Department of Geography, King's College, London

Norman Davidson, Department of Geography, University of Hull

David Evans, Department of Geography and Recreation Studies, North Staffordshire Polytechnic

Nick Fyfe, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge

Keith Harries, Department of Geography, University of Maryland, Balitmore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Linda Harvey, Department of Social Administration, University of Manchester

Kevin Heal, Home Office Research and Planning Unit

David Herbert, Department of Geography, University College of Swansea

Mike Hough, Home Office Research and Planning Unit

Gloria Laycock, Home Office Research and Planning Unit

Helen Lewis, Home Office Research and Planning Unit

John Lowman, Department of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia

Rob Mawby, Department of Social and Political Studies, Plymouth Polytechnic

Ken Pease, Department of Social Administration, University of Manchester

George Rengert, Department of Criminal Justice, Temple University, Philadelphia

Stephen Stadler, Department of Geography, Oklahoma State University

Susan Smith, Centre for Housing Research, University of Glasgow

This collection of essays on the geography of crime has its origins in two conferences held in 1986. The first was held at North Staffordshire Polytechnic with the support of that institution and the second formed part of the programme of meetings organized by the Institute of British Geographers' Study Group in Urban Geography. Most of the contributions to these conferences have been included in this volume. With the preparation of a new text, however, the opportunity was present to draw in a wider range of contributors and to aim for a book which more fully represented the burgeoning interest in the geography of crime and something of the international spread of that interest. The initial focus on the spatial ecology of crime has been replaced by a more diverse set of approaches which are concerned more explicitly, for example, with spatial behaviour, with images and fears of crime, with the workings of the criminal justice system and with the relevance of research for crime prevention policies.

This text offers a balanced and up-to-date set of perspectives on the geography of crime. Its contributors are drawn from several parts of the world and include both established figures and others who are only now beginning to make an impact on the research literature. It offers both students of crime and delinquency and practitioners of criminal justice and crime prevention an overview of this important field of research and insights into the future corrections which it is likely to follow.

David J. Evans
David T. Herbert

David T. Herbert

This is in many ways a timely book. The geography of crime has come of age in the 1980s and both the quickening of pace in terms of research and the willingness to move into new kinds of topical areas reflect this. There is now a range of content it would not have been possible to depict a decade ago and also a blurring of the boundaries between kinds of analyses conducted by geographers and those which are typical of criminology as a whole. A geography of crime will always carry its particular hallmarks of an interest in spatial structures, in environmental associations, and in the special qualities of place, but any tendency which might have existed for spatial chauvinism is now far less evident than it might have been in the past.