by
Kennedy, Leslie W.
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364.01 22
Publication Date
2009
Summary
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.
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Van Brunschot, Erin Gibbs.
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363.10973 22
Publication Date
2008
Summary
Van Brunschot and Kennedy capture the interdisciplinary realities facing public security today, and the means in which a risk balance is evident in the secruity decisions made to deal with crime, terrorist activities and environmental disasters.
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