TY - JOUR
T1 - Place and Crime
T2 - Integrating Sociology of Place and Environmental Criminology
AU - Kim, Sangmoon
AU - LaGrange, Randy L.
AU - Willis, Cecil L.
PY - 2013/1
Y1 - 2013/1
N2 - Standard sociology and criminology have not been sufficiently sensitive to the unique characteristics that places have. It has been implicitly assumed that one place (be it a neighborhood, census track, or metropolitan area) is interchangeable with another, given certain demographic and economic variables. This article attempts to recast environmental criminology within a sociological framework known as the "sociology of place." The unequal spatial distribution of crime makes it an ideal candidate for analysis within this sociological framework: crime is universal, yet spatially concentrated; targets everyone, yet not everyone equally; is socially constructed, yet has a very real physical reality to it. The article addresses the important linkage between crime and place.
AB - Standard sociology and criminology have not been sufficiently sensitive to the unique characteristics that places have. It has been implicitly assumed that one place (be it a neighborhood, census track, or metropolitan area) is interchangeable with another, given certain demographic and economic variables. This article attempts to recast environmental criminology within a sociological framework known as the "sociology of place." The unequal spatial distribution of crime makes it an ideal candidate for analysis within this sociological framework: crime is universal, yet spatially concentrated; targets everyone, yet not everyone equally; is socially constructed, yet has a very real physical reality to it. The article addresses the important linkage between crime and place.
KW - environmental criminology
KW - sociology of place
KW - spatial distribution
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84871650584&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1078087412465401
DO - 10.1177/1078087412465401
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84871650584
SN - 1078-0874
VL - 49
SP - 141
EP - 155
JO - Urban Affairs Review
JF - Urban Affairs Review
IS - 1
ER -