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"This book provides a basic overview of the more popular theories that have been used to explain the concentration of crime in certain places and times. Each theory is carefully and clearly developed from its historical roots to contemporary applications, with solid research cited throughout the discussions. The reader is then moved from theory into practice, where a summary and critique of a number of various theoretically-driven practical policy applications are presented. The basic elements of crime analysis and crime mapping, both very popular crime fighting tools for police agencies and place managers, are presented. Finally, the book closes with a strong Marxist-based critique of the various theories, policies, and tools, leaving the reader with some troubling questions to ponder"--

TWO ISRAELI ARCHITECTS CREATED AN EXHIBITION OF MAPS AND PHOTOS SHOWING THE LINK BETWEEN THE PHYSICAL DESIGN OF JEWISH SETTLEMENTS AND THE POLITICAL MOTIVES BEHIND THEIR CONSTRUCTION. ITS SPONSORS SHUT IT DOWN

Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Phenomenology, Modernism and the Crisis of Modernity -- Braiding -- Phenomenology as Pre-theory: Reduction and Historicity -- Shifts of Attitude: Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty -- Epiphanic Modernism -- The Time When Everything Cracked -- Phenomenology, Language and Meaning-Giving -- Primordial Faith -- Apples -- Earthly Angels -- Intersubjectivity: Selves, Others, World -- Hyperdialectic -- Notes -- Chapter 2: On Apples, Broken Frames and Fallenness: Phenomenology and the Unfamiliar Gaze in Cézanne, Stein and Kafka -- Breaking the Frame: Cézanne's Secret Folds and Faithful Apples -- Gertrude Stein, Fringed Experience and an Apple -- Kafka's Metamorphosis: A Rotten Apple -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Earthly Angels and Winged Messengers: Experience and Expression in Hopkins, Stevens and Klee -- Catching Flight: Hopkins's Windhover -- Necessary Angels and Half-Way States: Wallace Stevens -- 'Still Imperfect': Paul Klee's Angelology -- Intuitive Appropriation -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Virginia Woolf's Interworld: Folds, Waves, Gazes -- Bracketing -- 'Gigantic Conversation' -- Doubling -- Bernard's 'Little Language' -- Exchanging Secrets: Woolf and Cézanne -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Hyperdialectic: A Modernist Adventure -- Stein's 'If I Told Him' and NDT's Shutters Shut -- Rhythms of Hyperdialectic: Woolf -- Stevens's Never-Ending Meditation -- Readiness for Questionability: Kafka -- 'Man is Half a Prisoner, Half Borne on Wings': Klee, Hopkins -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index