Crime and Justice, Volume 8, Volume 8: Communities and Crime

by Albert J. Reiss Jr.

How does crime relate to the quality of life in communities? What role does fear play in influencing crime patterns? What is the effect of crime on a community's school's teachers, and pupils? How does environmental design affect crime? Can household and community mobilization change crime patterns?

Examining the ways in which communities both affect crime and are affected by it, this volume seeks to explain the wide variation of crime levels...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226807983
• ISBN13: 9780226807980
• Release Date: May 1987
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"