Geographies of Behavioural Health, Crime, and Disorder The Intersect
This book focuses on the intersection of place and overall community health thereby focusing on some of the most critical contemporary social problems, including the opioid crisis, suicide, socioeconomic status and ethnicity, mental illness, crime, homele
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Kim M. Lersch Jayajit Chakraborty Editors
Geographies of Behavioural Health, Crime, and Disorder The Intersection of Social Problems and Place
GeoJournal Library Volume 126
Managing Editor Daniel Z. Sui, Department of Geography, College Station, Columbus, OH, USA
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6007
Kim M. Lersch Jayajit Chakraborty •
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Geographies of Behavioural Health, Crime, and Disorder The Intersection of Social Problems and Place
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Editors Kim M. Lersch School of Information University of South Florida Tampa, FL, USA
Jayajit Chakraborty Department of Sociology and Anthropology The University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, TX, USA
ISSN 0924-5499 ISSN 2215-0072 (electronic) GeoJournal Library ISBN 978-3-030-33466-6 ISBN 978-3-030-33467-3 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33467-3 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Contents
1 Introduction: Connecting Behavioral Health, Crime, and Neighborhood Disorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kim M. Lersch and Jayajit Chakraborty Part I
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Geography and Behavioral Health
2 The Geography of Mental Health: An Examination of Police Calls for Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kim M. Lersch and Annette Christy
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3 Improving Estimates of the Quantity and Quality of Persons Involved in the Opioid Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. D. Vaughan
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Part II
Geography of Crime
4 Crime Hot Spots, Crime Corridors and the Journey to Crime: An Expanded Theoretical Model of the Generation of Crime Concentrations . . . . . . . . . .
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