The Geography Of Illegal Drugs

Politics & Social Sciences

Rengert, George F.

Social Sciences

Routledge

Unique in approach and engrossing in presentation, this book explores the elements of suburban residential burglary. In this revision, the chapters have been updated and a new chapter included on how burglars select their homes. The authors draw on in-depth interviews with admitted burglars as well as their own criminal justice experience to identify the social, psychological and environmental factors that encourage burglary. They show how the social regulation of individuals’ time, the ways in which postwar suburban planning and architecture conflict with current lifestyles, and reactive techniques of supervising convicted burglars all contribute to the crime. The inclusion of the ideas and, often, the actual words of the burglars interviewed brings this material to life, but it is the content itself, with its analytical approach to reducing vulnerability, that makes the text invaluable for all those professionally or personally concerned with the problem.

Suburban Burglary: A Tale of 2 Suburbs

Wasilchick, John

Charles C. Thomas Pub Ltd

Unique in approach and engrossing in presentation, this book explores the elements of suburban residential burglary. In this revision, the chapters have been updated and a new chapter included on how burglars select their homes. The authors draw on in-depth interviews with admitted burglars as well as their own criminal justice experience to identify the social, psychological and environmental factors that encourage burglary. They show how the social regulation of individuals’ time, the ways in which postwar suburban planning and architecture conflict with current lifestyles, and reactive techniques of supervising convicted burglars all contribute to the crime. The inclusion of the ideas and, often, the actual words of the burglars interviewed brings this material to life, but it is the content itself, with its analytical approach to reducing vulnerability, that makes the text invaluable for all those professionally or personally concerned with the problem.

The nightly news and other media provide a constant reminder of illegal drug transport over American borders and along routes between various U.S. cities. The general public is well aware that law enforcement efforts to address the foreign supply and trafficking of illegal drugs into the United States is an ongoing battle.This useful and readable compendium gives a fascinating account of how illegal drugs are transported into and around the United States and throughout its neighborhoods. Criminologist and geographer George F. Rengert takes a unique approach to the problem of illegal drug distribution and U.S. drug markets. Using maps and charts to illustrate his findings, Rengert applies spacial diffusion models to the illegal drug trade and explains why certain drugs are transported and found in different parts of the country. For example, the highest concentration of marijuana plants is not on either coast, but rather across the middle of the United States—throughout what is known as the corn belt. At the local level Rengert assesses the patterns and processes that interconnect drug sales and neighborhood deterioration and change.The book also addresses the important issues of how illegal drugs in this country operate on wholesale and retail levels and ways in which law enforcement at the federal, state, and local levels contend with this widespread problem. Using ethnographic material to provide real-life examples, Rengert explores how drug dealers on the street expand spatially and predictably in their neighborhoods. He illustrates how this knowledge helps law enforcement in efforts to get these drugs off the streets.

Perseus

The nightly news and other media provide a constant reminder of illegal drug transport over American borders and along routes between various U.S. cities. The general public is well aware that law enforcement efforts to address the foreign supply and trafficking of illegal drugs into the United States is an ongoing battle.This useful and readable compendium gives a fascinating account of how illegal drugs are transported into and around the United States and throughout its neighborhoods. Criminologist and geographer George F. Rengert takes a unique approach to the problem of illegal drug distribution and U.S. drug markets. Using maps and charts to illustrate his findings, Rengert applies spacial diffusion models to the illegal drug trade and explains why certain drugs are transported and found in different parts of the country. For example, the highest concentration of marijuana plants is not on either coast, but rather across the middle of the United States—throughout what is known as the corn belt. At the local level Rengert assesses the patterns and processes that interconnect drug sales and neighborhood deterioration and change.The book also addresses the important issues of how illegal drugs in this country operate on wholesale and retail levels and ways in which law enforcement at the federal, state, and local levels contend with this widespread problem. Using ethnographic material to provide real-life examples, Rengert explores how drug dealers on the street expand spatially and predictably in their neighborhoods. He illustrates how this knowledge helps law enforcement in efforts to get these drugs off the streets.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Westview Press

Security on college campuses -- and at similar high-density facilities such as hospitals and shopping malls -- can be greatly improved by using new high-definition crime mapping techniques in conjunction with community policing. This conclusion is based on new research conducted by the authors at Temple University in Philadelphia and other colleges. Notable features of this book include: * Surprising news about the types of campuses that are most and least safe from crime. * Guidelines for the most effective use of new high-density Geographic Information Systems in combination with campus crime victimization surveys. And, * Findings of dramatic decreases in assaults and other crimes at Temple University from the use of such situational crime prevention measures as improved lighting, altered landscaping, heightening student awareness of dangerous situations, controlling access to high-risk areas, and preventive patrol.

Campus Security: Situational Crime Prevention in High-Density Environments

Mattson, Mark T.

Henderson, Kristin D.

Lynne Rienner Publishers

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The Geography Of Illegal Drugs

Suburban Burglary: A Tale of 2 Suburbs

Suburban Burglary: A Tale of 2 Suburbs

The Geography Of Illegal Drugs

The Geography Of Illegal Drugs

Campus Security: Situational Crime Prevention in High-Density Environments