Steven F. Messner

Editorial - Letter from the Editors (2009)

Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Douglas S. Massey, Steven F. Messner, James Sidanius, Michel Wieviorka

For more than two years now the International Journal of Conflict and Violence has been publishing the latest findings from the field of research on conflict and violence. The decision to launch an...

Misdemeanor Policing, Physical Disorder, and Gun-related Homicide:A Spatial Analytic Test of "Broken-Windows" Theory (2009)

Cerdá, Magdalena, Tracy, Melissa, Messner, Steven F, Vlahov, David, Tardiff, Kenneth, Galea, Sandro

Peer Reviewed

Guanxi and Fear of Crime in Contemporary Urban China (2009)

Zhang, Lening, Messner, Steven F., Liu, Jianhong, Zhuo, Yue Angela

Western research has investigated individual correlates of fear of crime with a primary focus on people's vulnerability. This vulnerability model examines the possible effects on fear of indicators...

Editorial - Letter from the Editors (2008)

Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Douglas S. Massey, Steven F. Messner, James Sidanius, Michel Wieviorka

Guest Editorial (2008)

Steven F. Messner, Helmut Thome

It is surely no overstatement to claim that the concepts of “anomie” and “anomia” permeate much contemporary scholarly and public discourse about crime, violence, and other forms of...

Editorial - Letter from the Editors (2008)

Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Douglas S. Massey, Steven F. Messner, James Sidanius, Michel Wieviorka

We are pleased to announce a number of additions to the Journal’s Advisory Board. We warmly welcome Julia Eckert (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale), Barbara Krahé...

Institutions, Anomie, and Violent Crime: Clarifying and Elaborating Instituional-Anomie Theory (2008)

Steven F. Messner, Helmut Thome, Richard Rosenfeld

A limited but accumulating body of research and theoretical commentary offers support for core claims of the “institutional-anomie theory” of crime (IAT) and points to areas needing further...

A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS OF THE RISK OF HOUSEHOLD BURGLARY IN THE CITY OF TIANJIN, CHINA (2007)

Zhang, Lening, Messner, Steven F., Liu, Jianhong

This study applies the integrated, multilevel framework developed in the West to explain variation in the risk of household burglary within the city of Tianjin, China. The analytic framework consists...

Policing, drugs, and the homicide decline in New York City in the 1990s (2007)

Messner, Steven F, Galea, Sandro, Tardiff, Kenneth J, Tracy, Melissa, Bucciarelli, Angela, Markham Piper, Tinka, ...

Peer Reviewed

The social ecology of urban homicide : an application of the "routine activities" aproach / Steven F. Messner, Kenneth Tardiff (1985)

Messner, Steven F, Tardiff, Kenneth

Separata de la revista criminology vol. 23 N. 2

Explaining crime for a young adult population: An application of general strain theory

Ostrowsky, Michael K., Messner, Steven F.

Gang crime and its punishment in China

Zhang, Lening, Messner, Steven F., Lu, Zhou, Deng, Xiaogang

The "dark figure" and composite indexes of crime: Some empirical explorations of alternative data sources

Messner, Steven F.