NCJ Number
108935
Journal
Criminology Volume: 25 Issue: 4 Dated: (November 1987) Pages: 893-909
Date Published
1987
Length
7 pages
Annotation
This essay attempts to codify more than a century of ecological research on crime and deviance into an integrated set of 30 propositions and offers these as a first approximation of a theory of deviant places.
Abstract
It is well known that high rates of crime and deviance can persist in specific neighborhoods despite repeated, complete turnovers in the composition of their populations. That this occurs suggests that more than 'kinds of people' explanations are needed to account for the ecological concentration of deviance -- that we also need to develop 'kinds of places' explanations. (Publisher abstract)