Sociology

Environmental Criminology

Environmental Criminology

Environmental criminology is the study of criminal offense, criminality and victimization as they relate, first, to particular places, as well as secondly, to that individuals as well as organizations shape their activities spatially, and by doing this are in turn influenced by place-based or spatial factors. Environmental criminology focuses on criminal patterns in just particular built conditions and analyzes the impacts of those external variables upon people’s cognitive behavior.