Environmental criminology focuses on criminal patterns within particular built environments and analyzes the impacts of these external variables on people’s cognitive behaviour.
Criminology is a sub-field of sociology dealing with matters related to crime and criminal behavior.
Naturally, criminology must take into account that the definition of crime varies according to the cultural mores and, especially, laws of a given area.
This is an area where caution is warranted; if one is comparing, e.g., violent crimes between nations, one must be careful that the actions counted in that category are similar for each nation; otherwise the comparison is meaningless.
EnvironmentalCriminology Research - Focuses on geographic profiling, which uses sophisticated computer software to determine the most likely area of offender residence in cases of serial murder, rape and arson.
Korean Institute of Criminology - A government-sponsored public research organization under the Prime Minister's Office that assists in policy formulation by analyzing the current state of crime phenomena, conducts scientific studies, and contributes to public education through publication of the results of research projects.
Australian Institute of Criminology - The Institute is the national focus for the study of crime and criminal justice in Australia and for the dissemination of criminal justice information.
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