Toward a Criminology of Disaster: What We Know and What We Need to Find Out (Disaster Studies)

by Dee Wood Harper (Author), Dee Wood Harper (Author), Kelly Frailing (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2017

  $161.69

  This book puts forward a comprehensive criminology of disaster by drawing - and building - upon existing theories which attempt to explain disaster crime. They highlight the need for the application of social disorganization, routine activity and general strain theories of crime in the development of disaster crime prevention strategies.