crimescape

English

Etymology

From crime +‎ -scape.

Noun

crimescape (plural crimescapes)

  1. A landscape or particular environment of criminal activity.
    • 2010, Barry Sandywell, “On the globalisation of crime: the Internet and new criminality”, in Yvonne Jewkes, Majid Yar, editors, Handbook of Internet Crime‎[1], London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2012, →ISBN, page 55:
      Some of the more innovative paradigms have built on these beginnings to create new research programmes that integrate the specific study of global crimescapes within more generic social theories of the Internet and cyberculture.
    • 2022, Barbie Latza Nadeau, The Godmother: Murder, Vengeance, and the Bloody Struggle of Mafia Women‎[2], New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 68:
      The Cutolo siblings' NCO quickly dominated the Neapolitan crimescape, at one time supporting an estimated seven thousand members and their families.
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