Book Info
Metropolitan Crime Patterns
Robert M. Figlio, Simon Hakim and George Rengert, eds.
(paperback)
1986, 206 pages
ISBN: 0-960696-03-2
$27.50
This is one the first books to examine crime trends from a metropolitan-wide perspective. Topics include: the “hardening” of the inner city; crime in suburbia; mobility patterns of offenders; the effect of neighborhood characteristics on crime; variations in police expenditures, and others. “The focus on metropolitan crime and the movement of criminals in metropolitan areas is unique,” Prof. Charles S. Wellford, Univ. of Maryland
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