Filters, Fears, and Photos: Speculations and Explorations in the Geography of Crime

Crime patterns may be analyzed by specialists in several disciplines, and the most powerful methods for one area of study may not be particularly useful for another. Historians, for example, focus on longitudinal trends and changes in social dynamics behind the changes. Sociologists, who examine processes and relationships in the hope of teasing out causes of particular types of crime, focus on different factors than do criminologists. Each discipline has its own perspective, and the tools used for achieving that ...