Background Despite the increasing awareness and interests about the importance of crime
concentration at places, scholars have not comprehensively synthesized the body of …

Historically speaking, criminological theory tends to pay great attention to identifying the
various sources of criminal motivation while downplaying the opportunity to carry out crime …

The field of environmental criminology is a staple theoretical framework in contemporary
criminological theory. With this book, Martin Andresen presents the first comprehensive and …

Objectives Investigate the spatial concentrations and the stability of trajectories for
disaggregated crime types on street segments and intersections in Vancouver, Canada …

The primary objective of this study is to accumulate, summarize, and evaluate the state-of-
the-art for spatio-temporal crime hotspot detection and prediction techniques by conducting …

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had tremendous and extensive
impacts on the people's daily activities. In Chicago, the numbers of crime fell considerably …

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

Images of community in criminological thought--Community as socially disorganized--
Community as a system--Community as the truly disadvantaged--Community as a criminal …

Abstract The August Vollmer Award Address is intended to focus on contributions to justice
and on the recipient's research and policy experiences. This contribution begins with the …

Crime has both varying patterns in space, related to features of the environment, economy
and policing, and patterns in time arising from criminal behaviour, such as retaliation …