Environmental criminology

Place-based criminology has a long history of examining the potential causes and correlates of criminogenic environments. This line of scholarship has been able to establish that crime, levels of social guardianship, and racial/ethnic groups are unevenly distributed throughout s…

Criminological research is moving towards the study of small geographic areas. Crime and crime perceptions are influenced by environmental features and contextual conditions that are more common in some places than others, and therefore these are unequally distributed in space. …