Environmental Criminology: Evolution, Theory, and Practice 1st Edition

so far so good

This book was used in an upper division undergraduate course titled "Environmental Crime Prevention" and the book worked very well in most capacities. The book on its own is worthy of 5 stars, for our course structured largely around crime prevention the book garnered probably 4 stars because the book has a somewhat limited chapter on crime prevention specifically, but covers the topic well throughout.I would highly recommend this book for motivated undergraduate students and students interested in pursuing graduate degrees in criminology, why crime occurs, or crime prevention, how crime may be reduced. I would also recommend the book to anyone in the fields of building management or security because applying principles from this book could help reduce crime or disorder.Specific things I appreciated about this book: phenomenal section on crime measurement, for example, Andresen makes a compelling argument for why using the general population for measuring crime rates is misleading. He brings up faulty statistical inferences such as the ecological and atomistic fallacies which I similarly appreciated, good use of cursory crime mapping techniques and why they are useful and a good condensed version of how environmental criminology evolved to what it is today.

The books is good, great explanations and flow. But the book has various glitches where words are not properly spelled such as "intennonokjing"... in the book that's supposed to mean interesting. Little things like that bring down the overall satisfaction.

Best book in the field.