Received: 2022-08-18  |  Accepted: 2022-10-20  |  Published: 2022-12-30

Title

Locating crime in the field of sustainability: a bibliometric mapping on "sustainability and crime" from 1995 – 2022


Abstract

. Emerging as a field of study and paradigm shifts parallel to the societal changes are inherited consequences of social sciences. Criminology, as a field of study, originated from sociology and developed as a particular field of study, later initiating sub-disciplines within the subject. Moreover, moving back and forth in the criminological evolution, multidisciplinary research connected the crimes with indirectly related fields and generated more total outputs to emphasize the ultimate goal of criminology, "crime control and prevention". Identifying crimes within the area of sustainability is vairy. Discussions of crime prevention as improving quality of life, locating different criminal activities within Sustainable Development Goals (SDG.s), and using SDG.s for crime prevention are among the ample dialogues. This study reviews the literature on sustainability and crime with VOSviewer, a bibliometric visualizing software.


Keywords

bibliometric mapping, crime, Scopus, sustainability, VOSviewer


JEL classifications

Q56


URI

http://jssidoi.org/ird/article/119


DOI


Pages

140-154


Funding


This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Authors

Ranaweera, K.G.N.U.
University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka https://www.sjp.ac.lk
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Journal title

Insights into Regional Development

Volume

4


Number

4


Issue date

December 2022


Issue DOI


ISSN

ISSN 2345-0282 (online)


Publisher

VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

Cited

Google Scholar

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