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Urban Crime, Criminals, and Victims

The Swedish Experience in an Anglo-American Comparative Perspective

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  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. Per-Olof H. Wikström

    1. Department of Criminology, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

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Part of the book series: Research in Criminology (RESEARCH CRIM.)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Per-Olof H. Wikström
    Pages 1-6

  3. The Rate, Structure, and Trends in Urban Crime

    • Per-Olof H. Wikström
    Pages 7-15

  4. The Urban Offender

    • Per-Olof H. Wikström
    Pages 16-48

  5. The Social Contexts of Urban Crime

    • Per-Olof H. Wikström
    Pages 49-99

  6. The Urban Victim

    • Per-Olof H. Wikström
    Pages 100-110

  7. Stockholm: Its Crime and Urban Structure

    • Per-Olof H. Wikström
    Pages 111-129

  8. Housing, Population Composition, and Offending

    • Per-Olof H. Wikström
    Pages 130-184

  9. Routine Activities, Area Crime, and Victimization Patterns

    • Per-Olof H. Wikström
    Pages 185-236

  10. Integration and Discussion of Findings

    • Per-Olof H. Wikström
    Pages 237-245

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 246-271
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Crime is largely an urban phenomenon, but the specifically urban and area dimen­ sions of the social processes that are connected with crime have been seriously understated in much recent criminological work ... Such a claim could not have been made forty years ago. (Baldwin & Bottoms, 1976, p. 1). The above statement by Baldwin and Bottoms about the neglect in crimi­ nology of the urban dimension of crime was made in the mid-1970s. However, in the last decade there has been a significant upswing in theory and research on crime in the urban environment. Also, new areas oftheory and research into urban crime have come into focus. (For overviews see Brantingham & Brantingham, 1984; Davidson, 1981.) One very good example of the increasing interest in urban crime is the recent volume of Crime and Justice entitled "Communities and Crime" (Reiss & Tonry, 1986), in which Reiss makes a strong argument for the importance of the study of crime in urban communities and for the linking of the ecological and individual traditions in theory and research on crime. A review of the literature on crime in urban environments shows, not unexpectedly, that Anglo-American research heavily dominates the scene (Wikstrom, 1982; 1987b). Hence, much of the experience we have on urban crime is based on North American and British research and theory.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Criminology, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

    Per-Olof H. Wikström

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Urban Crime, Criminals, and Victims

  • Book Subtitle: The Swedish Experience in an Anglo-American Comparative Perspective

  • Authors: Per-Olof H. Wikström

  • Series Title: Research in Criminology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9077-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-9079-4Published: 08 April 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-9077-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-7540

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 271

  • Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Psychology, general

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