Our paper reports on a systematic review of crime concentration studies over the last 35
years. We identify 47 papers that report on crime concentrations at a micro geographic unit …

Recent systematic reviews on proactive policing interventions illustrate the potential
effectiveness of these strategies for reducing crime and disorder. However, many proactive …

The field of environmental criminology is a staple theoretical framework in contemporary
criminological theory. This fully revised and expanded edition of the world's first …

Abstract The August Vollmer Award Address is intended to focus on contributions to justice
and on the recipient's research and policy experiences. This contribution begins with the …

The dense distribution of crime in a small number of micro places led to the formulation of a
law of crime concentration applicable across cities and stable over time. This law has rarely …

Objectives The study examined whether Assets Coming Together (ACT), a policing
intervention directed at increasing collective action and collective efficacy at crime hot spots …

In this article, we seek to identify whether the relationship between health disparities and
crime occurs at a micro-geographic level. Do hot spot streets evidence much higher levels of …

Objectives To investigate spatial pattern data signatures in residential burglary resulting
from the crime drop. Methods Geo-referenced crime data, 2003–2016, representing …

This paper examines the use of varying scaling in hotspot map** as an exploratory spatial
data analysis technique. The ambiguous geographic relationships between different crime …

Numerous studies have shown that hot spot policing (HSP) is effective in reducing crime in
small high-risk locations. However, questions remain about the efficacy of HSP outside large …