Objectives: Test whether the exposure of street segments to five different potentially
criminogenic facilities is positively related to violent, property, or disorder crime counts …

Although theories posit that some types of local institutions will have a crime-producing
influence in neighborhoods while others will have the opposite effect, the empirical evidence …

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 The present study tests hypotheses regarding the moderating influence of
neighborhood-level criminal opportunity on the relationship between crime generators and …

Objectives The present study provides an illustration of a statistical test of the Brantinghams'
theory about the formation of hotspots and the effects that nodes, paths, and environmental …

Objectives: The utility of configural behavior settings is explored as an alternative unit of
analysis for place-based criminological research. Four research questions are …

Using data obtained from three different sources, principles derived from routine activities
theory are used to predict the distribution of minor property crimes in a medium-sized …

Abstract Theory and research in the area of environmental criminology have suggested that
people who own or manage particular locations can influence crime at these places. This …

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 …

Criminologists and crime prevention practitioners are increasingly aware of the importance
of places of crime. A place is a very small area, usually a street corner, address, building, or …