Objectives Much recent work has focused on how crime concentrates on particular streets
within communities. This is the first study to examine how such concentrations vary across …

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 …

Objectives: Recent work has debated which geographic scale is most relevant to
understanding the clustering of crime and disorder across a city. This study introduces …

Over the last 40 years, the question of how crime varies across places has gotten greater
attention. At the same time, as data and computing power have increased, the definition of a …

According to Laub (2004), criminology has a developmental life course with specific turning
points that allow for innovations in how we understand and respond to crime. I argue that …

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 To identify how much of the variability of crime in a city can be attributed to micro
(street segment), meso (neighborhood), and macro (district) levels of geography. We define …

Although much of the crime and place literature seeks to explain crime frequency in relation
to environmental conditions, few studies have examined crime diversity in space. This article …

Community policing, crime mapping, and the recent attention to theories of social
disorganization are all examples of the renewed appreciation for understanding the social …

Objectives The influence of three hierarchical units of analysis on the total spatial variability
of violent crime incidents in Chicago is assessed. This analysis seeks to replicate a recent …