The Greening of Environmental Criminology: Changing Meanings of Disorder in an English Town.

Grounded in a detailed local study of everyday security, in this paper we set out a path for bringing together environmental and green criminology. Revisiting an old research site, Macclesfield in north-west England, we encountered marked shifts in the local meanings of disorder that seem to have de...

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Publicado en:British Journal of Criminology Vol. 66; no. 3; pp. 477 - 495
Autores principales: Girling, Evi, Bradford, Ben, Loader, Ian, Sparks, Richard
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Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA May2026
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          Department of Security and Crime Science, University College London, London WC1H 9EZ, UK
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