In recent years, crime scholars and practitioners have pointed to the potential benefits of
focusing police crime prevention efforts on crime places. Research suggests that there is …

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

The study of crime has focused primarily on why particular people commit crime or why
specific communities have higher crime levels than others. In The Criminology of Place …

Why do certain people commit acts of crime? Why does crime happen in certain places?
Presenting an ambitious new study designed to test a pioneering new theory of the causes …

Patterns are the epistemological core of predictive policing. With the move towards digital
prediction tools, the authority of the pattern is rearticulated and reinforced in police work …

The effects of crime generators, crime attractors, and offender anchor points on the
distribution of street robberies across the nearly 25,000 census blocks of Chicago are …

Crime Analysis With Crime Mapping, Fourth Edition provides students and practitioners with
a solid foundation for understanding the conceptual nature and practice of crime analysis to …

Ethnographic evidence reveals that many crimes in poor minority neighborhoods evade
criminal justice sanctioning, thus leading to a negative association between the proportion of …

The next phase of evidence-based policing requires both scholars and practitioners to move
from lists of specific studies about “what works” to using that information strategically. This …

Situational action theory (SAT) explains why crime happens, and more broadly why people
follow and break common rules of conduct. SAT proposes that the causes of human actions …