Conceptual Issues in the Geography of Crime

Toward a Geography of Social Control

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8375489
AutoresJohn Lowman (0000-0003-2717-6236, Simon Fraser University, autor correspondente)
Ano1986
Volume76
Fascículo1
Páginas81-94
Data de publicação1986-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnnals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-8306.1986.tb00105.x
OpenAlexW1972357552
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas25
Referências citadas58

In this paper I describe and question some of the basic premises, beliefs, and values implicit in the geography of crime. The critique focuses on the analytic separation of crime and the control of crime, a separation that has informed most geographic research on crime. Using an instrumentalist methodology, geographers have studied crime, law, and the judicial system without any systematic consideration of the impact of the control system on crime patterns. A discussion of interactionist and critical perspectives in criminology raises questions about the correctionalist impulse of much of the geography of crime, the prima facie interpretation of official crime statistics guiding it, the hypostatization of criminal behavior informing it, and the general consequences of a perspective that abstracts crime from its sociolegal context. The paper outlines several strategies for developing an integrated analysis of crime and control

Context (archaeology) · Control (management) · Crime control · Criminal justice · Criminology · Cultural Criminology · Economics · Epistemology · Geography · Human geography · Instrumentalism · Perspective (graphical) · Social control · Social science · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses