Abstract
Figure 3.1 illustrated how the condition of the individual, whether offender or victim, can be understood as being within a wider social, political, cultural and economic context. There is another set of circles of influence that surround and influence individual circumstances; this set recognises the spatial and environmental context within which we all exist:
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the nature of the buildings in which we live, work, play or study
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that building’s relationship to its surrounding spaces and location in the neighbourhood
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the neighbourhood’s relationship to the rest of the town or countryside
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the location of the region and nation in which we live.
The two sets of circles are complementary, overlapping and interactive and, ideally, would be better illustrated as axes of a three-dimensional sphere. This chapter will address this second axis — the environmental one.
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Space is the stage on which man’s behaviour unfolds. Space provides the occasions for motives — the opportunities, temptations and pressures. Space conditions human relationships, brings people together and separates them. Space undergirds social climate, sets limits, inspires, beckons, frustrates, isolates, crowds, intrudes, liberates. (Toch 1980: xi)
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Shaftoe, H. (2004). Crime and the Environment. In: Crime Prevention. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-21393-7_5
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