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Ecology of Crime
Defined as the study of social and behavioral consequences of the interaction between human beings and their environment. It is the study of one particular behavioral outcome of the processes , the violation of rules of conduct defined in law.
Focuses on:
The role of the environment in the development of peoples differential propensity to engage in crimes and their differential exposure to settings conducive to engage in acts of crime.
Crime Rate
Temperature
Population Density
Large urban areas have by far the highest violence rates. Areas with low per capita crime rates tend to be rural. This findings are also supported by victim data. Exceptions to this trend are low population resort areas with large transient and seasonal populations such as Atlantic City, New Jersey and Massachusetts.
Region
Crime rates vary by region. Southern states have had consistently higher crime rates in almost all crime categories than those found in other regions of the country.
This date convinced some criminologist that there was a southern subculture of violence. Through the lead has flippedflopped in recent years between the south and the west. The illustrated figure indicate that southern crime rates once again lead the nation.
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