The Importance of Both Opportunity and Social Disorganization Theory in a Future Research Agenda to Advance Criminological Theory and Crime Prevention at Places

2014/04/28 by David Weisburd, Elizabeth R. Groff, Sue-Ming Yang +1
Social Sciences · #Crime Patterns and Interventions #Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance #Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis

paper · doi:10.1177/0022427814530404

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Abstract

Keywordscauses/correlates, crime, prevention, crime, social disorganization,criminological theoryCriminology has been primarily focused on people and why they commitcrime. In an article in Crime and Justice that examined quantitative studiesof criminological theory in Criminology (1968–2005), 60 percent of the

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