In the absence of effective formal means for controlling crime in the Western world,
community crime prevention has emerged as a major alternative and supplement to the …

The explosive rise in the US incarceration rate in the second half of the twentieth century,
and the racial transformation of the prison population from mostly white at mid-century to …

The question of the APPROPRIATE legal reaction to crime has g erated heated debates for
centuries. On one side, the classical theory justice favors a uniform legal treatment of all …

The" democracy" issue is a mirage; we are led back around to the question on its merits.'Sit
tight, the worm is about to turn again in constitutional" theory." Fed up with the activism of the …

Over the past four decades the fear of crime has become an increasingly significant concern
for criminologists, victimologists, policy makers, politicians, police, the media and the …

Building upon the work of Stinchcombe, Taylor et al., the present research attempts to
assess the impact of victimization, salience, and attribution on four measures of criminal …

Tracing the gestation of any particular project is always somewhat artificial since behind
every 'beginning'there is always another potential starting point. But, in the case of this book …

In 1950s America, it was remarkably easy for police to arrest almost anyone for almost any
reason. The criminal justice system-and especially the age-old law of vagrancy-served not …

Thefear of crime'has, in the past three decades or so, developed as an important area of
criminological research and inquiry. Debates have proliferated within and outside of the …

Studies of the fear of crime have constituted what is undeniably the fastest growing research
area within criminology in the last decade and this shows no sign of diminishing. The editors …