Publisher's Synopsis
Crime is an illegal act for which someone can be punished by the government. Justice is the legal or philosophical theory by which fairness is administered. The concept of justice differs in every culture. The text Research Methods in Crime and Justice presents social research methods within the context of actual research projects that are relevant to future criminal justice practitioners. In first chapter, we propose an approach to correlate crime and urban metrics via the evaluation of the distance between the actual value of the number of homicides and the value that is expected by the scaling law with the population size. Second chapter addresses the relations between conceptions of urban crime, pattern, and pattern languages concerning the spatiality paradigm and sociality-spatiality relations. Third chapter undertakes a philosophical analysis of what constitutes Igbo African law. Fourth chapter advocates for the critical role of spatial structure and urban morphology in crime prevention through environmental design and fear of crime in the city. Fifth chapter proposes critical reflections on
