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Crime and Justice, Volume 8: An Annual Review of Research (Volume 8) (Crime and Justice: A Review of Research) - Hardcover

 
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Synopsis

Examining the ways in which communities both affect crime and are affected by it, this volume seeks to explain the variation of crime among socially organized communities. Traditional information about crime is usually described in terms of specific events involving individual offenders and victims. Crime statistics regarding offense and victimization are computed according to individual attributes, such as age, income, race, or gender. Thus the fact that the risk of crime is a function of where we are and what we are doing, as well as of who we are, is often obscured.

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About the Author

Michael Tonry, professor of law emeritus at the University of Minnesota and former director of the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University, is an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security, and Law in Freiburg, Germany.

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