Books written by Gerben Bruinsma

Place Matters: Criminology for the Twenty-First Century

This has already been a key factor in development and lack of development of work in this area. We believe the first detailed empirical examination of the distribution of crime across microgeographic places is Shaw's identification of ...
Place Matters

Around the 1940s, pioneers including Kurt Lewin, Egon Brunswik, and Roger Barker pointed out that people act differently within different social and physical settings. They argued that we cannot gain a full understanding of human ...
Place Matters: Criminology for the Twenty-First Century

The book brings together eighteen top scholars in criminology and place to provide comprehensive research expanding across different themes.
Punishment, Places and Perpetrators

The basis for Raudenbush's distinction between the developmental processes underlying language acquisition and ... is a long tradition in developmental psychology of group-based theorizing about both normal and pathological development.
Putting Crime in its Place: Units of Analysis in Geographic Criminology

This peer reviewed collection of essays aims to contribute to crime and place studies by making explicit the problems involved in choosing units of analysis in geographic criminology.
Experimental Criminology: Prospects for Advancing Science and Public Policy

The essays in this volume report on new and innovative contributions that experimental criminology is making to basic scientific knowledge and public policy.
Histories of Transnational Crime

This volume provides examples of transnational crime, and places them in a broad historical context, which has so far been missing from this field of study.
The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Criminology

This is a state-of-the-art compendium on environmental criminology that reflects the diverse research and theory developed across the western world.
Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice

This 10-volume work provides a complete and systematic coverage of the field that is unprecedented. The Encyclopedia "defines the field" through its choice of organization and entries.