1st Edition

Field Studies in Environmental Criminology

Edited By Ben Stickle Copyright 2022
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

This book includes fieldwork from five continents and demonstrates the breadth of techniques used by environmental criminologists to understand crime. Environmental criminologists seek to understand crime within the physical, and even digital, contexts where it occurs – believing that crime occurs when people converge in time and space and that the environment impacts the opportunity for crime.... Read more

Introduction

Ben Stickle

1. Provoked poachers? Applying a situational precipitator framework to examine the nexus between human- wildlife conflict, retaliatory killings, and poaching

William D. Moreto

2. When a loved one is on community supervision: the crime controller strategies used by ‘PoPPs’ (parents/ partners/ peers of probationers and parolees)

Lacey Schaefer, Emily Moir and Gemma C. Williams

3. Putting qualitative methodology in perspective: reflections on the relevance of fieldwork into the field of Environmental Criminology

Elenice Oliveira

4. Exploring the influence of daily microroutines on residential guardianship and monitoring patterns

Emily Moir, Danielle M. Reynald, Timothy C. Hart and Anna Stewart

5. Yelping about a good time: casino popularity and crime

Virginia Sosa, Gisela Bichler and Lianna Quintero

6. Porch pirates: examining unattended package theft through crime script analysis

Ben Stickle, Melody Hicks, Amy Stickle and Zachary Hutchinson

7. Fieldwork protocol as a safety inventory tool in public places

Vania Ceccato

Biography

Ben Stickle is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Middle Tennessee State University. With nearly twenty years of practitioner experience, his research interests include policing, crime prevention, and property crime (e.g., metal theft and package theft). He has published widely in scholarly journals, books, and other outlets.