As Google expands its Street View database and repeatedly collects footage of the same area, this option could become a particular powerful tool for researchers interested in evaluating the impact of changes in the environment on crime and crime prevention.
Compstat may have given some police officers sleepless nights, but in a broad environment of falling crime there is more credit than blame to go around.
Park and Burgess's notions of natural areas and concentric zones inspired the members of the Chicago School to perform field research on the effects of urban environments on crime and disorder.
Researchers interested in the impact of the built environment on 'fear of crime', and any subsequent influence of these perceptions on health, should be mindful that the environment appears to impact these constructs differently.
Another point that we want to mention is the near absence of cyberspace as the new environment for crime.
Along with millions or Argentines, who Monday night hit the streets looking for an explanation they don't expect to get, as they target their ire against President Kirchner in an environment of escalating inflation, crime, and recession.
"Rio is NOT a safe environment, and the level of crime has spiked in the last few days," it adds.
Also, studies have consistently shown an association between a deteriorated physical environment and higher rates of crime, making neighborhoods less safe for walking and in some cases resulting in greater social isolation.
"I was saying before September 11 that the issue of poverty and development, the issue of trade, the issue of the environment, of health, of migration, of crime, of drugs, were all global things.
