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Analysis of the role that the immediate environment plays in the occurrence of a crime.  Divided into three parts, it gives anoverview of the development of environmental criminology as a discipline through its origins in spatial criminology. It examines social disorganization theory, which explains criminal activity with reference to the characteristics of the community that delinquents live in. It then discusses the ecology of crime with reference to macroenvironments and microenvironments. The next section introduces concepts such as routine activity theory, the geometric theory of crime, the rational choice theory of offending, and crime pattern theory. The last part focuses on the concept of crime prevention, examines the idea of altering the environment in order to prevent crime, and discusses situational crime factors and efforts to reduce the opportunities for crimes to be committed. It considers the impact of routine activities on crime prevention initiatives and advocates a flexible approach to crime prevention based on the dynamic nature of our environment. It concludes with a chapter outlining how environmental criminology has evolved in recent years and provides a future outlook on where it may be headed. 4870 CLAS

Describes state of the art research and theory of criminology with comparative analyses and insight from worldwide experts.   Topics include: the etiology of crime, historical antecedents of contemporary responses to crime, life course criminology, the basis for comparative research in criminal justice, sources and strategies for knowledge acquisition in criminology, specific forms of crime and criminal behavior, including environmental, sex-related, and financial,  responses to crime, including technological, societal, and policy-related crime issues related to social divisions. 5800 INTE