Abstract
An inclination toward the analytical and topical rather than the synthetic and global sometimes obscures from our view parsimonious regularity in the outside world. As an example, consider the geography of crime. Every crime has fixed spatial coordinates, a location. The scale of the location varies widely, from the specific site of a block mugging to broad tracts of territory which may remain under the hold of lawless bands for decades. But, despite this range of scales, might there be particular types of locations amenable to crime? Might there exist a common set of spatial ecological conditions favorable to deviant behavior?
Environments are invisible. Their groundrules, pervasive structure, and overall patterns elude easy perception.
Marshall McLuhan
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Ley, D., Cybriwsky, R. (1996). The Spatial Ecology of Stripped Cars. In: The Psychology of Vandalism. The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0176-7_16
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