00000cmm a22000004a 4500 UP-99796217611526298 Buklod 20250505104559.0 m o j ta 250505s2012 enk u eng d 9780199979110 (eBook) (iLib)UPD-00241005527 DLC DMLS rda eng DMLUC HV 6150 W45 2012eb Weisburd, David author. The criminology of place street segments and our understanding of the crime problem David Weisburd, Elizabeth R. Groff, and Sue-Ming Yang. Oxford Oxford University Press [©2012] 1 online resource (xvi, 272 pages) illustrations (some color), maps (some color) text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier IP-based subscription, access limited to within on-campus computer network. Access via Electronic Resources of the UPD University Library Website. The study of crime has focused primarily on why particular people commit crime or why specific communities have higher crime levels than others. This book presents a new and different way of looking at the crime problem by examining why specific streets in a city have specific crime trends over time. Based on a sixteen-year longitudinal study of crime in Seattle, Washington, the book focuses our attention on small units of geographic analysis-micro communities, defined as street segments. Half of all Seattle crime each year occurs on just 5-6% of the city's street segments, yet these crime hot spots are not concentrated in a single neighborhood and street by street variability is tremendous. This book sets out to explain why. It shows how much essential information about crime is inevitably lost when we focus on larger units like neighborhoods or communities. Reorienting the study of crime by focusing on small units of geography, the book identifies a large group of possible crime risk and protective factors for street segments and an array of interventions that could be implemented to address them. Electronic reproduction. Oxford Oxford Scholarship Online 2012. Crime Environmental aspects. Geographical offender profiling. Criminal behavior, Prediction of. Crime scenes. Crime analysis. Crime prevention. Electronic books. Groff, Elizabeth (Elizabeth R.) author. Yang, Sue-Ming author. Available for the University of the Philippines System via Oxford Scholarship Online . Click here to access http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195369083.001.0001 (viewed 20 November 2017) FO UPD DMLS HV 6150 W45 2012eb Electronic Resource