Drawing on new studies from major European countries and Australia, this exciting collection extends the ongoing debate on falling crime rates from the perspective of criminal opportunity or routine activity theory. It analyses the effect of post WW2 crime booms which triggered a universal improvement in security across the Western world.
Author Biography:
MARCELO F. AEBI University of Lausanne, Switzerland
ANDREW BRITTON Home Office Statistics, UK
MARCUS FELSON Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Texas, USA
ANNA ALVAZZI DEL FRATE Small Arms Survey, Switzerland
SHURYO FUJITA John Jay College, USA
LAURA GARIUS PhD Student, Loughborough University, UK
LOUISE GROVE Lecturer of Criminology and Social Policy, University of Loughborough, UK
KRISTIINA KANGASPUNTA UNICRI, Italy
CHRIS KERSHAW Home Office Statistics, UK
MARTIN KILLIAS Academy of Experimental Criminology Fellow, University of Zurich, Switzerland
BRUNO LANFRANCONI Swiss National Accident Insurance Fund (Suva), Switzerland
ANTONIA LINDE Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, Spain) and University of Lausanne, Switzerland
INEKE HAEN MARSHALL Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University, USA
MICHAEL MAXFIELD Professor of Criminal Justice, John Jay College, USA
PAT MAYHEW London, UK
STEVEN F. MESSNER Distinguished Teaching Professor at the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Albany, USA
SARAH OSBORNE Home Office Statistics, UK
RICHARD ROSENFELD Curators Professor in Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA
KEVIN SMITH Home Office Statistics, UK
REBECCA THOMPSON Nottingham Trent University, UK
NICK TILLEY Professor in the Department of Security and Crime Science, Jill Dando Institute, University College London, UK
GIULIA MUGELLINI TRANSCRIME Joint Research Centre on Transnational Crime, Italy
BEN VOLLAARD Assistant Professor at the Economics Department of Tillburg University, The Netherlands