This study explores whether the broader context in which a city is located impacts the
change in crime levels over the subsequent decade. This study uses a wide range of cities …

Research in the social disorganization tradition has found community disadvantage to be
one of the strongest and most consistent macro-level predictors of homicides in urban areas …

A consistent finding in criminology is that crime occurs and is concentrated at micro places
within cities. To date, most efforts that revealed crime at micro places were completed for …

The systemic theory of social disorganization maintains that opportunities for victimization
are conditioned by neighborhood social order. Systemic social control emanates from the …

This dissertation spatially examined crime in the City of Saint Louis, Missouri, 2011-2018.
Using a descending spatial scale approach, whereby a series of meso and micro level …

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 …

Objective Research demonstrates that crime is concentrated. This finding is so consistent
that David Weisburd refers to this as the “law of crime concentration at place”. However …

The main goal of this study is to investigate the spatial patterns of police-reported crime rates
across select Canadian urban neighbourhoods and to explore their relationships with both …

Neighborhood disparities in crime are a persistent feature of US cities. Scholars have
documented that both local structural conditions and characteristics of spatially proximate …

With the help of Geographic Information Systems and statistical tools, this dissertation
intends to (a) explore the spatial and temporal patterns of burglary,(b) examine the …