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YUTAKA HARADA
Department Department of Data Science, Faculty of Data Science Position Professor |
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| Language | Japanese |
| Publication Date | 2020/11/20 |
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| Title | Diverse Aspects of “High Crime Areas”: Drawing on Felson and Eckert’s Notion of “Overt Crime Areas” |
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| Journal | Japanese Journal of Sociological Criminology |
| Journal Type | Japan |
| Publisher | Japanese Association of Sociological Criminology |
| Volume, Issue, Page | (45),pp.46-56 |
| Details | This paper examines contemporary implications of the studies on “communities and crime” in the United States, based on the presentation and discussions at the symposium of the 46th. annual meeting of the Japanese Association of Sociological Criminology, and by recounting the issues from the viewpoint of “over crime areas,” proposed by Felson and Eckert (2018) . Their arguments on overt crime areas are characteristic in such aspects as the distinction between “overt” and “covert” crime, as well as crime and disorder; and the notion of tough neighborhoods, which are taken over by over crime and public disorder, as “enhancers,” not “causes,” of crime. Whereas their arguments are highly consistent with findings in recent studies on communities and crime, and societal changes after mid-1970s, in the United States, extra caution is needed when applied to contemporary Japan as analytical frames of reference. |