Crime, Space and Place

New Geographical Perspectives
A critical introduction to the geographies of crime. The authors examine crime through the lenses of space and place including topics such as corruption, transnational organised crime and ecocide. This is a forward-looking book that enhances our geographical understandings of crime in the twenty-first century.
This critical introduction to the geographies of crime highlights the specific value that a geographical perspective adds to the study of crime. Examining crime through the lenses of space and place is shown to enhance our understanding of the nature of crime and how best to police it. The book charts how the study of crime has been taken up by geographers both historically and today, as well as exploring the interdisciplnary nature of geographies of crime its overlaps with criminology, sociology, economics and the contributions from new theoretical perspectives from beyond geography, such as Souther