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 …

Objectives: In his 2014 Sutherland address to the American Society of Criminology, David
Weisburd demonstrated that the share of crime that is accounted for by the most crime …

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 …

Our paper reports on a systematic review of crime concentration studies over the last 35
years. We identify 47 papers that report on crime concentrations at a micro geographic unit …

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 …

Objective To assess whether the “law of crime concentration at place” applies in a non-
urban context. We test whether longitudinal trends in crime concentration, stability, and …

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: Recent work has debated which geographic scale is most relevant to
understanding the clustering of crime and disorder across a city. This study introduces …

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 …

Some urban spaces are associated with disproportionate numbers of criminal events, while
other areas are relatively free from disorder and crime. The relationship between urban …