Previous research has consistently identified a crime spillover effect from public housing
communities. However, variation in spillover between communities has also been observed …

Aggregate-level research on crime can be dated to the work of the moral statisticians Guerry
and Quetelet, who were among the first to formally note that rates of crime were distributed …

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 …

Community cohesion generally acts to increase the safety of communities by increasing
informal guardianship, and enhancing the work of formal crime prevention organisations …

This chapter proposes a broad and central role for segregation that recognizes it as
embedded in multiple spatial layers and as relevant to a number of social dimensions that …

Purpose The current study simultaneously examines the effects of three different
characteristics of the built environment based on the theoretical conceptualizations of …

BACKGROUND The present research evaluates the possibility of spatial heterogeneity in
the effects on neighborhood crime rates of both traditional demographic indicators …

The social disorganization perspective assumes that social interaction among neighbors is a
central element in the control of community crime. Moreover, social interaction among …

THE idea that neighborhoods and crime are intimately connected has a long history in the
field of criminology. Dating back to the era of the Chicago School of sociology, and …

Geographic variations in crime are often linked to aspects of urban social structure that are
latent constructs, not directly observed but instead proxied by a range of observed …