Maguire, Morgan & Reiner: The Oxford Handbook of Criminology 4e 
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Chapter 17
As indicated in the text of this chapter, there are at least three identifiably separate groups of scholars working in the field of socio-spatial criminology, and there is no good overall text that covers all three traditions. Students most interested in the routine activities/rational choice/crime pattern theory approach might begin further reading with Felson, Crime and Everyday Life, 3rd edn (Sage, 2002) and those parts of Chainey and Ratcliffe, GIS and Crime Mapping (John Wiley, 2005) that interest them; at a more advanced level they might then move on to the essays in Smith and Cornish, Theory for Practice in Situational Crime Prevention (Criminal Justice Press, 2003). Students who wish to acquaint themselves with the social disorganization tradition and its modern developments should begin by mastering Kornhauser's excellent chapter on early social disorganization theory in his Social Sources of Delinquency (University of Chicago Press, 1978: ch. 3); and then move on to strong recent essays such as those by Wikström and Sampson, Social Sources of Delinquency (University of Chicago Press, 2003) and Sampson and Raudenbush, 'Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder and Crime', American Journal of Sociology, 105: 603–51 (1999). Finally, those interested in the more ethnographic and 'cultural criminology' approach to the subject are recommended to read Keith Hayward's textbook, City Limits: Crime, Consumer Culture and the Urban Experience (Glasshouse, 2004); and, in more empirical vein, the excellent study of the night-time economy by Dick Hobbs and his colleagues, Bouncers: Violence and Governance in the Night-Time Economy (Oxford University Press, 2003).
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