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Given its pivotal location between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, its numerous islands, its abundant flora and fauna, and its subtropical climate, Florida has long been ideal for human habitation. Yet Florida traditionally has been considered peripheral in the study of ancient cultures in North America, despite what it can reveal about social and climate change. The essays in this book resoundingly argue that Florida is in fact a crucial hub of archaeological inquiry. New Histories of Pre-Columbian Florida represents the next wave of southeastern archaeology. Contributors use new data to challenge well-worn models of environmental determinism and localized social contact. Indeed,...
Since first emerging as an issue of concern in the late 1960s, fear of crime has become one of the most researched topics in contemporary criminology and receives considerable attention in a range of other disciplines including social ecology, social psychology and geography. Researchers looking the subject have consistently uncovered alarming characteristics, primarily relating to the behavioural responses that people adopt in relation to their fear of crime. This book reports on research conducted over the past eight years, in which efforts have been made to pioneer the combination of techniques from behavioural geography with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in order to map the fear o...
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Este Cuaderno Metodológico ofrece un novedoso y exhaustivo compendio de definiciones operativas, medidas y estrategias de análisis de la victimización, el miedo al delito, la confianza en la justicia y las actitudes hacia el castigo penal. Las experiencias y posicionamientos de la ciudadanía hacia la delincuencia y la acción del aparato de justicia penal constituyen hoy día asuntos de enorme importancia tanto científico-social como política. En buena parte de los países de nuestro entorno se realizan periódicamente encuestas que permiten disponer de información rigurosa y calibrar con ello el debate público en torno a las leyes penales o las políticas de seguridad. Este trabajo viene a proporcionar las bases conceptuales y metodológicas que hagan plenamente asumibles tanto la obtención rigurosa de datos sobre seguridad ciudadana como su estudio y análisis por parte de la comunidad investigadora.