Crime and the Urban Environment The Scottish Experience

9781856284684

1856284689

Work in environmental criminology and social geography have long shown that the basic roots of crime are environmental, ranging from structural influences like poverty and class, through the roles in the community of agencies like the police and housing authorities, to the narrower architectural influences of housing design, street lighting, etc. This book considers, for the first time, the whole range of such environmental influences on crime in modern Scotland.The Scottish context provides a particularly fascinating one because there is considerable evidence that Scotland has been bucking the alarming British and wider international crime trends. It is clear that environmentally-based studies of crime in urban Scotland have considerable policy relevance in the fight to reduce crime in England and Wales and elsewhere.The authors comprise a genuinely multidisciplinary from criminology, social geography, law, social work and housing. They comprise virtually everyone who is actively researching the environmental criminology field in Scotland currently.