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Autor:
Keith D. Harries
Publikováno v:
Geoforum. 37:404-416
A salient characteristic of the geography of crime in the US is the presence of extremely sharp geographic variations. These variations may be significant indicators of local environmental inequalities and may have implications for fear of crime and
Autor:
Keith D. Harries, Philip Canter
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Police Science & Management. 6:37-50
With the increasing adoption of geographic information systems (GIS) by police departments and other law enforcement agencies around the world, the issue of how effectively maps and related media communicate information has become germane. In the pol
Autor:
Keith D. Harries, Philip Canter
Publikováno v:
Justice Research and Policy. 5:127-138
Over the last decade, police departments in the United States and elsewhere began to adopt geographic information systems (GIS) technology, recognizing the advantages of a system that enables the inspection of crime patterns and spatial filtering and
Autor:
Eric Kovandzic, Keith D. Harries
Publikováno v:
Violence Against Women. 5:813-828
The authors focus on the density of assaults against women in Baltimore City, expressed in terms of persistence, intensity, and areal extent. Aggravated assaults and homicides with female victims were abstracted from the data base of all such events
Autor:
Keith D. Harries
Publikováno v:
Social Science & Medicine. 45:1251-1264
In the last decade violence has emerged as a public health issue, with concomitant interest in surveillance and prevention. This paper is an extension of earlier work seeking to expand the ecological analysis of violence across jurisdictional boundar
Autor:
Keith D. Harries
Publikováno v:
Political Geography. 14:473-495
Increases in violent crime have renewed interest in the broader application of capital punishment, a controversial issue owing in part to its uneven application, historically, in both time and space, and in terms of offender and offense characteristi
Autor:
Andrea Powell, Keith D. Harries
Publikováno v:
Urban Geography. 15:45-63
Violence, particularly among minority youths, is a perennial social problem widely regarded as synonymous with the inner city. This analysis examines 2, 639 juvenile gun crimes reported to the police in an 11-year period, 1980-1990, in Baltimore, Mar
Autor:
Keith D. Harries
Publikováno v:
Geoforum. 24:205-213
Prior research on the geography of homicide in the U.S. has shown a considerable variation in population-specific rates at the state level, with emphasis historically on high rates in the South. Here, the logical corollary of homicide, execution, is
Autor:
Keith D. Harries
Publikováno v:
Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography. 74:21-29
Although executions have become less frequent in recent years, most states retain the death penalty as the ultimate sanction, and administer it from time to time. While the overwhelming maj...