Criminality in Space and Time: Life Course Analysis and the Micro-Ecology of Crime (From Crime and Place, P 315-347, 1995, John E Eck and David Weisburd, eds. -- See NCJ-160730)

• NCJ Number: 160744
• Author(s): M D Maltz
• Date Published: 1995
• Length: 33 pages
• Sale Source: Police Executive Research Forum (PERF); Criminal Justice Press/Willow Tree Press
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS. Crime Prevention Studies, Volume 4

Annotation

In studying the relationship between communities and crime, most researchers use either one of two methods, quantitative and cross-sectional or qualitative and ethnographic.

Abstract

The former has the advantage of permitting the researcher to look for general relationships among many community variables, but the nature of interactions occurring within communities cannot be discerned. The latter has the advantage of permitting the researcher to describe street-level interactions in a neighborhood and relate them to neighborhood characteristics. By its nature, however, ethnography can only investigate such interactions in a limited interval of time and space. Another means of studying the relationship between communities and crime is explored, one based on archival data maintained by public agencies such as schools, welfare departments, and juvenile courts. Data from these agencies can "tell a story" about the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and crime. 58 references, 13 notes, and 6 figures