A range of concepts and lexicon of terms denote crime's tendency to concentrate. The most established are repeat offending, repeat and near repeat victimization, geographical hotspots, and hot products. Complementary terms include hot dots, hot places, hot targets, super-targets, risky facilities, risky routes, crime sprees and spates. This study charts the relationships, offers a potentially unifying concept and examines the causal mechanisms by which crime becomes concentrated. It is concluded that further effort to integrate concepts and explanations relating to concentrations of crime may provide insights useful to theory, policy and practice.
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Farrell, G. (2015). Crime concentration theory. Crime Prevention and Community Safety, 17(4), 233–248. https://doi.org/10.1057/cpcs.2015.17
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