Crime, neighborhood, and public housing [electronic resource] /
Garth Davies.
- New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2006.
- vii, 192 p. : ill.
- Criminal justice recent scholarship .
- Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC) .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-190) and index.
Introduction: Crime diffusion in public housing neighborhoods -- Crime and public housing -- Public housing neighborhoods and the social ecology of crime -- Informal social control, crime, and public housing -- Crime diffusion as a sociostructural process -- Research design and analytic framework -- Spatial patterns and the diffusion of crime -- Validation and diagnostics -- Summary: Crime and public housing in context.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Crime--Sociological aspects. Public housing--Social aspects. Social ecology. Spatial behavior.