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| NEW ADVANCE OF STUDY ON CRIMINAL GEOGRAPHY |
| SUN Feng-hua1, WEI Xiao2 |
1. The Communications Institute of Ludong University, Yantai 264025, China;
2. Hunan Economic Geography Institute, Changsha 410004, China |
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Abstract This article briefly sets forth the developmental history of the criminal geography, points out that the development of criminal geography can be divided into four Periods:①the period of geographical environmental determinism;②the period of Environmentalism;③the period of Chicago Criminal School;④the period of criminal behavioral school.
This paper approaches the new development of the western criminal geography. The development of criminal geography takes on a new look since the 1990's. It mainly shows four fields:①introduction of positivism; ②introduction of the viewpoint of radical geography; ③introduction of integrated subject theories; ④introduction of GIS.
It sets forth the advance of Chinese criminal geography. The western criminal geography was introduced by medical science educational circles before the 1980's.Criminal geography had aroused geography educational circles in the 1980's.The development of criminal geography has made gradually since the 1990's in China. It mainly shows four fields:①study of the subject system of criminal geography; ②study of the theories of criminal geography; ③applied study of individual field of criminal geography; ④research of the future development of criminal geography.
The paper sets forth the position of criminal geography in human geography, which has an important guide sense for establishing the criminal geography in the 21st century. Lastly, it looks forward the criminal geography in the 21st century, and points out twelve hot issues of the criminal geography in 21st century:(1)space choice law of criminal behavior;(2)criminal space;(3)natural environment and criminal;(4)criminal market;(5)population geographical feature and criminal space distribution;(6)community criminal;(7)criminal map indication;(8)the disequilibrium of regional economic development and the difference of criminal space;(9)regional social cultural environment and criminal characteristics;(10)criminal regional divisions and criminal space planning;(11)the criminal feature of the unite region between city and countryside;(12)control and countermeasure of criminal region.
The hot issues of criminal geographical study are observed from philosophical viewpoint, and the 21st century will be a time of rapid development of criminal geography.
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Received: 09 December 2003
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2004, Vol. 19 
