The Criminal Event Perspectives in Space and Time

by Sacco, Vincent; Kennedy, Leslie

• ISBN13: 9780534524562
• ISBN10: 0534524567
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-27
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Sacco/Kennedy is a concise, economical text that offers a unifying element to aid student understanding of the material presented. The organizing tool ("the criminal event") presents crime as consisting of many facets, and it shows the relationships between the various facets of crime. With an emphasis on spatial analysis, the authors examine crime from all sides, what motivates people to commit crime, who suffers and how, and how society should respond.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
The Criminal Event	1	(34)
Conceptualizing Crime	2	(5)
Crime as Lawbreaking	3	(2)
Crime, Politics, and the Law	5	(2)
Crime in Context: Introducing the Criminal Event	7	(12)
Precursors	11	(3)
Transactions	14	(2)
Aftermath	16	(3)
Criminal Event Domains: From Private to Public	19	(5)
From Family to Workplace to Leisure	20	(4)
Measuring Criminal Events	24	(9)
Uniform Crime Reports (UCR)	24	(2)
Calls for Service Data	26	(1)
National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)	27	(2)
Self-Report	29	(1)
Ethnographic Research	30	(1)
Comparing Data Types	30	(2)
The Crime Funnel	32	(1)
Summary	33	(2)
The Main Actors in the Criminal Event	35	(20)
Offenders	35	(7)
The Lives of Offenders: Life Course	37	(1)
The Criminal Career	38	(4)
Victims	42	(6)
Physical Consequences	44	(1)
Emotional Consequences	45	(2)
Behavioral Consequences	47	(1)
Victims and Offenders Together	48	(1)
Bystanders	49	(1)
Police Practice	50	(3)
Summary	53	(2)
The Social Context of Criminal Events	55	(26)
Places for Crime	56	(1)
Social disorganization Theory	57	(5)
Routine Activities and Lifestyle Exposure Theory	62	(13)
Victimization and Opportunity	68	(5)
Opportunity Reduction	73	(2)
Community Reactions to Crime	75	(4)
Summary	79	(2)
Private Places: The Family and the Household	81	(13)
Violence in the Household	82	(6)
Precursors	82	(1)
Transactions	83	(2)
Aftermath	85	(3)
The Household as Target: Property Crime	88	(5)
Precursors	88	(1)
Transactions	88	(3)
Aftermath	91	(2)
Summary	93	(1)
Semiprivate Places: Workplaces	94	(25)
Crime, Employment, and Unemployment	95	(9)
Precursors	95	(3)
Transactions	98	(5)
Aftermath	103	(1)
Crime and Legitimate Work	104	(7)
Precursors	104	(5)
Transactions	109	(1)
Aftermath	110	(1)
Enterprise Crime versus Organized Crime	111	(5)
Precursors	111	(1)
Transactions	112	(3)
Aftermath	115	(1)
Summary	116	(3)
Public Places: Leisure	119	(14)
Leisure as a Corrupter	120	(9)
Precursors	120	(2)
Transactions	122	(6)
Aftermath	128	(1)
Tourism	129	(2)
Precursors	129	(1)
Transactions	130	(1)
Aftermath	131	(1)
Summary	131	(2)
Applying Criminal Event Analysis	133	(22)
Crime Prevention through Opportunity Reduction	133	(7)
Community-Based Policing	140	(9)
Crime Prevention through Social Development	149	(4)
Summary	153	(2)
References	155	(18)
Index	173