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David L. Weisburd, David L. Weisburd - Policing Hot Spots of Crime, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Policing Hot Spots of Crime

Av David L. Weisburd, David L. Weisburd

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This volume provides a broad framework for understanding hot spots policing in the context of contributions by Professor David Weisburd, recipient of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology for his work in this area.The book aims to bring together a wide array of studies that are seldom integrated into a broad general argument about why hot spots policing “makes sense,” why police agencies should be implementing this approach, and how police reform can be integrated into their efforts. In the 21st century, a series of rigorous evaluations of hot spots policing overturned the widespread assumption that the police could not prevent crime. Today, there is wide agreement that when the police focus on crimes clustered in individual locations, often called microgeographic units or hot spots, they can be effective in preventing and controlling crime. This collection examines the history of the development of the idea of crime hot spots and evidence of crime concentrations at place that underlie hot spots policing. It also presents key experimental studies that show that hot spots policing works and that it does not simply lead to displacement of crime. Finally, the volume addresses how police reform can be integrated into hot spots policing.Of interest to a wide range of criminologists and policing scholars, this volume brings together and synthesizes the evidence supporting a focus on hot spots to prevent crime.
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David Weisburd is Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University and Executive Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy. He is also the Walter E. Meyer Professor Emeritus of Law and Criminal Justice at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law in Jerusalem. He serves as Chief Science Adviser at the National Policing Institute.

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This is an incredibly important collection of scientific works and essays. Weisburd presents a powerful narrative on how practical criminological theories, the willingness of police departments to experiment with new crime preventions ideas, and persistence of a small group of scholars can shift scientific paradigms and policy conversations. The nearly four decades of hot spots policing research and development efforts led by Weisburd and his colleagues obliterated status quo narratives that “police do not prevent crime”, “place-based crime prevention leads to crime displacement”, and “policing harms rather than helps communities.” The world is a safer and fairer place because of the work presented here. This book should be mandatory reading for police executives, mayors and city managers, scholars, and students interested in effective crime prevention policy and practice.Anthony A. Braga, University of PennsylvaniaProfessor Weisburd has curated a wonderful and deeply thoughtful collection of papers for a book that spans both the history and future of crime hotspots and evidence to guide policing best practice. An anthology of this kind could only ever come from Weisburd and his teams of students and colleagues bringing together over nearly four decades of careful research and scholarly insight. With clear historical recollections of how the law of crime concentration emerged and how this “law” must be understood and acted upon by police, Weisburd and Cody Telep’s conclusion charts the way forward for future research, policy and practice considering the “big science” approach for making our streets, communities and cities safer for generations to come. Lorraine Mazerolle AC, The University of Queensland

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