Risky places: Risky night-time entertainment zones, corners
Many crimes in modern societies occur in entertainment zones at night. Suburban and middle-class offenders contribute to these crimes as victims and offenders, yet the incidents are recorded away from their own zone of residence. Outdoor assaults occur in great disproportion in night-time entertainment zones. Some of the entertainment zones are strips along a street. Others are confined to particular corners. Sometimes a relatively tame entertainment zone contains a sliver of dangerous activity at its edge. Sometimes risky night-time entertainment is dispersed or diluted and hence less easily noticed. Other times such entertainment is highly concentrated, drawing from a larger hinterland. This paper deliberately raises more questions than it answers.
