Crime and Policing

Part 1 Introduction: Shaw and McKay; environmental criminology; the geography of crime; the Sheffield school; Lowman; left realism. Part 2 Crime and offender data: the production of official crime data; who reports crime?; which factors influence the reporting of crime?; the decision to record a crime; victimization surveys; offender data. Part 3 Residential burglary: definition of residential burglary and levels of fear; why study residential burglary?; spatial and ecological studies; journey to burgle; behavioural approach; the defensible space approach; social hypotheses. Part 4 Violent crime: the problem of calculating rates of violent crime; the growth of violent crime; data production and its influence on the distribution of violent crime; domestic violence; violence in public; robbery; theories about the causation of violent crime. Part 5 Juvenile offenders: subcultural approach; labelling; residential community crime career. Part 6 Fear of crime: definitions; who is afraid?; the irrational (?) fear of women; calculation of victimization rates and fear of crime; victimization; incivilities; media effects; fear of crime and the presence of police patrols. Part 7 Policing: community policing; police consultative committees; lay visitors; racism and the police; the impact of policing upon crime levels. Part 8 Crime prevention: crime prevention policies in the UK; lighting and crime; the impact of crime prevention policies upon residential burglary rates; crime prevention techniques and robbery.