THE PLACE OF CONTEXT: A THEORY AND STRATEGY FOR CRIMINOLOGY'S HARD PROBLEMS

摘要: I present a theoretical framework and analytic strategy for the study of place as fundamental context in criminology, with focus on neighborhood effects. My approach builds past 15 years research from Project Human Development Chicago Neighborhoods recent book unifying results. argue that “ecometrics” can be applied at multiple scales, elaborate core principles guiding hypotheses five problems: 1) legacies inequality developmental effects; 2) race, crime, new diversity; 3) cognition context, above all social meaning disorder; 4) measurement sources collective efficacy cosmopolitan world; 5) higher order structures beyond arise complex urban systems. Although conceptually distinct, these hard problems are interdependent ultimately linked to frontier criminology: contextual causality.