Over the last two decades, there has been increased interest in the distribution of crime and
other antisocial behavior at lower levels of geography. The focus on micro geography and its …

As we near the end of the 20th century, interest in crime places continues to grow. The
identification of crime hot spots (Sherman, Gartin, and Buerger 1989) was perhaps a …

The study of crime has focused primarily on why particular people commit crime or why
specific communities have higher crime levels than others. In The Criminology of Place …

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In their article about crime, place, and pollution, Eck and Eck (2012, this issue), advance an
argument that has been developing for more than two decades. The specific places where …

Social scientists have had a long and enduring interest in the geography of crime and the
explanation of variation of crime at place. In this introductory chapter, we first describe the …

Crime opportunities are neither uniformly nor randomly organized in space and time. As a
result, crime mappers can unlock these spatial patterns and strive for a better theoretical …

This review takes stock of recent advances, as well as enduring and emerging challenges,
in the area of spatial criminology. Although the notions of place and space are …

This book is about the unit of analysis in studies of crime and place. The quick expansion of
this field demands a reflection on what the units of its analysis are and should be. Crime …

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 …