The Ecology of Crime and Violence
- Criminology
- Mon 25th Jan 2021
From a personal safety perspective, it is usually most beneficial to look at incidents of crime and violence at the micro-level i.e., what components come together to make an offense, such as the particular location where the incident occurred, the consideration in the moment that affected the perpetrator’s decision-making etc. However, there are times when it is worth taking a higher-level view and considering how the incident relates to its ecology. When we think about ecology, we normally think about it from a biological perspective, looking at how individual organisms relate and interact with each other in the environment(s) where...
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