The Spatial Scale of Crime: Consequences for Ecological Studies of Crime

Prof John R. Hipp - Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, Urban Planning and Public Policy and Sociology, University of California

Although ecological studies of the location of crime have increasingly utilized smaller and smaller geographic units to explore research questions, this ever-smaller trend has certain limitations. Most notably, this trend encounters the challenge that people move about the landscape, posing a problem for a narrow geographic lens and has largely been ignored. A second limitation of this ever-smaller trend is a narrowing of research questions that are asked, or even can be asked. This is an unnecessary narrowing of the research paradigm.

This webinar is a joint initiative between Network Safe places at KTH and American Society of Criminology's Division of Communities and Places (DCP)