Purpose The law of crime concentration suggests cities have almost no impact on the spatial
distribution of crime. This study reinvestigates the relationship between cities and the …

Whereas there is a burgeoning literature focusing on the spatial distribution of crime events
across neighborhoods or micro-geographic units in a specific city, the present study …

Objectives: Examine how neighborhoods vary in the degree to which they experience
repeat/near repeat crime patterns and whether theoretical constructs representing …

The central issues being examined include relationships between crime and the
geographical segregation of low-income people, the extent to which crime risks are greater …

Prior studies of neighborhood crime have largely overlooked a border issue in the
aggregation of criminal incidents to small areal units and a denominator problem arising …

It is not entirely clear what attribute of neighborhoods' race/ethnicity affects crime rates over
time. Drawing on a sample of block groups in Baltimore (MD) we therefore estimate negative …

This study examines the effects of urban sprawl and population density on crime in
suburban and rural municipalities. It is posited that population density provides additional …

This study shows that the global and local spatial patterns of burglary rates in the District of
Columbia neighborhoods varied significantly between 2019 and 2021, and that their …

Rural crime is relatively understudied in criminology. Though most research finds that urban
places have the highest crime rates and rural areas the lowest, little attention has been …

Research has repeatedly shown that crime is concentrated at relatively smaller places.
Weisburd (2015) argues that this may indicate the existence of a “law of crime …