Place Matters
Criminology for the Twenty-First Century

The book summarizes what we know about crime and place, and provides an agenda for future research in this area.

David Weisburd (Author), John E. Eck (Author), Anthony A. Braga (Author), Cody W. Telep (Author), Breanne Cave (Author), Kate Bowers (Author), Gerben Bruinsma (Author), Charlotte Gill (Author), Elizabeth R. Groff (Author), Julie Hibdon (Author), Joshua C. Hinkle (Author), Shane D. Johnson (Author), Brian Lawton (Author), Cynthia Lum (Author), Jerry H. Ratcliffe (Author), George Rengert (Author), Travis Taniguchi (Author), Sue-Ming Yang (Author)

9781107029521, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 4 April 2016

200 pages, 29 b/w illus. 5 tables
23.5 x 15.6 x 1.7 cm, 0.43 kg

'… an up-to-date and authoritative review of findings concerning the role of place in crime …' Journal of Criminal Justice Education

Over the last two decades, there has been increased interest in the distribution of crime and other antisocial behavior at lower levels of geography. The focus on micro geography and its contribution to the understanding and prevention of crime has been called the 'criminology of place'. It pushes scholars to examine small geographic areas within cities, often as small as addresses or street segments, for their contribution to crime. Here, the authors describe what is known about crime and place, providing the most up-to-date and comprehensive review available. Place Matters shows that the study of criminology of place should be a central focus of criminology in the twenty-first century. It creates a tremendous opportunity for advancing our understanding of crime, and for addressing it. The book brings together eighteen top scholars in criminology and place to provide comprehensive research expanding across different themes.

1. Crime places within criminological thought
2. The concentration of crime at place
3. Theories of crime and place
4. The importance of place in mainstream criminology and related fields: influences and lessons to be learned
5. Methods of place-based research
6. Reducing crime at high crime places: practice and evidence
7. Crime places in the criminological imagination.

Subject Areas: Human geography [RGC], Political science & theory [JPA], Crime & criminology [JKV], Sociology [JHB], Research methods: general [GPS]