The Geography of Juvenile Crime Place Trajectories

dc.contributor.advisorWeisburd, David Len_US
dc.contributor.authorGroff, Elizabethen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCriminology and Criminal Justiceen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2005-10-11T09:54:44Z
dc.date.available2005-10-11T09:54:44Z
dc.date.issued2005-09-14en_US
dc.description.abstractThe crime drop of the 1990s has been the subject of a large body of research, which has suggested juvenile crime was the major source of this decline. However, a satisfactory explanation for the crime drop remains elusive. While most of the work has focused on longitudinal studies of the development of delinquency in juveniles and macro-level patterns of juvenile crime, recent empirical and theoretical developments indicate that the processes driving crime trends may be operating at micro-level places. Thus, an examination of micro-level places may hold clues to understanding the crime drop. This research builds on two earlier studies in Seattle, Washington, that used trajectory analysis to identify temporal changes in crime at street blocks over a fourteen-year time period. Specifically, this research used a variety of spatial techniques to describe the distribution of the street blocks in each trajectory and their relationship to one another.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/2848
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSociology, Criminology and Penologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledGeographyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledtrajectory analysisen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledplaceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledspatialen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmicro-levelen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledjuvenile crime;longitudinalen_US
dc.titleThe Geography of Juvenile Crime Place Trajectoriesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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