Rethinking Neighborhoods, Crime and Place

Where and when does crime occur? This book addresses why some locations and neighborhoods experience more crime than others. It outlines the latest cutting-edge strategies and datasets being used to explore these questions and how these data allow hypotheses to be tested in ways that were not possible previously.John R. Hipp evaluates innovative techniques such as measuring and estimating spatial mobility and the impact of the larger city context on neighborhood-level crime modeling. Chapters assess the importance of longitudinal data, neighborhood change and the feedback effects of crime in understanding why crime concentrates in some neighborhoods and not others. Posing key questions for scholars, the book debates the future direction of research on the social, spatial and structural forces that shape the geography of urban crime.Rethinking Neighborhoods, Crime and Place is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of criminology and criminal justice, geography and sociology, especially those seeking a greater understanding of the relationship of crime to spatial scale. Practitioners and policymakers in urban planning, housing and policing will also benefit from its timely insights.