The risk in crime /

Kennedy, Leslie W.

The risk in crime / Leslie W. Kennedy and Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot. - Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., ©2009. - 1 online resource (xi, 169 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introducing risk -- Risk and precursors to crime -- Crime transactions -- The aftermath -- Integrating risk.

Work on risk has developed into a large industry applied in a variety of ways and locations. Here we locate crime research in the overall interdisciplinary study of risk and begin to address how risk can be used as a key element in our understanding of crime origins, evolution and prevention. We investigate how risk has been dealt with in crime theories and the usefulness of this concept in connecting crime perspectives together; we consider the ways in which risk is embedded in the evolution of crime; and how we might use the concept of risk to prevent crime and victimization. Using the crimi.


English.

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Crime.
Crime prevention.
Risk--Sociological aspects.
Risk assessment.
Risk management.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Risque--Aspect sociologique.
Évaluation du risque.
Gestion du risque.
risk assessment.
risk management.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Criminology.
Crime.
Crime prevention.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Risk assessment.
Risk management.
Risk--Sociological aspects.
Kriminalität
Prävention
Kriminologie
Risikoanalyse
Risikomanagement


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