Criminology of Place

Abstract

The focus is on crime but not on criminals, on place. There is a person-focused crime and justice model in this past century that needs to be reconsidered. Society focuses on how to understand and prevent people from doing crime, they assume that the key component In crime is the offender and that efforts on preventing crime are best focused on those who commit crimes. This book looks at where the crime occurs. The street segments. “the criminology of place (gartin buergerSherman, 1989) and “hot spots of crime” concentrations of crime in micro geographic areas. 5 main conclusions: 1. Crime is concentrated to hot spots. 2. The crime hot spots are stabile over time. 3.crime to create an efficient crime prevention one must focus on the micro level and not on a community or neighborhood level as this will lead to loss of important information. 4. Not only crime variate over small units of geography but also social and contextual characteristics of places. This is social systems relevant to the crime problem 5. Crime at a place is very predictable and therefore possible to prevent with strategies.