Objectives The crime and place literature lacks a standard methodology for measuring and
reporting crime concentration. We suggest that crime concentration be reported with the …

The empirical observation that a small number of micro places generate the bulk of urban
crime problems has become a criminological axiom. These micro places, commonly referred …

Objectives To identify how much of the variability of crime in a city can be attributed to micro
(street segment), meso (neighborhood), and macro (district) levels of geography. We define …

Objectives The law of crime concentration states that half of the cumulative crime in a city will
occur within approximately 4% of the city's geography. The law is demonstrated by counting …

Objective We address four outstanding empirical questions related to the “law of crime
concentration”(Weisburd in Criminology 53: 133–157, 2015):(1) Is the spatial concentration …

Background That crime is concentrated at a few places is well established by over 44
studies. This is true whether one examines addresses or street segments. Additionally, crime …

Objective Research demonstrates that crime is concentrated. This finding is so consistent
that David Weisburd refers to this as the “law of crime concentration at place”. However …

Objectives We argue that assessing the level of crime concentration across cities has four
challenges:(1) how much variability should we expect to observe;(2) whether concentration …

According to Laub (2004), criminology has a developmental life course with specific turning
points that allow for innovations in how we understand and respond to crime. I argue that …

Research within the geography of crime and spatial criminology literature most often show
that crime is highly concentrated in particular places. Moreover, a subset of this literature has …