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Policing Crime Hot Spots

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Preventing Crime

In recent years, crime scholars and practitioners have pointed to the potential benefits of focusing crime prevention efforts on crime places. A number of studies suggest that crime is not spread evenly across city landscapes. Rather, there is significant clustering of a crime in small places, or “hot spots,” that generate half of all criminal events (Pierce et al., 1988; Sherman et al., 1989a; Weisburd et al., 1992).

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  1. University of Massachusetts Lowell, 870 Broadway Street, 01854-3044, Lowell, MA, USA

    Brandon C. Welsh

  2. University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, CB3 9DT, Cambridge, UK

    David P. Farrington

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Braga, A.A. (2007). Policing Crime Hot Spots. In: Welsh, B.C., Farrington, D.P. (eds) Preventing Crime. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-69169-5_12

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