Policing Problem Places: Crime Hot Spots and Effective Prevention

by Anthony A. Braga and David Weisburd

Book Overview

Both those who study crime and those who fight it agree that crime is not spread evenly across city landscapes. Rather, clusters of crime--a few "hot spots"--host a vastly disproportionate amount of criminal activity. Even within the most crime-ridden neighborhoods, crime concentrates at a few locations while other areas remain relatively crime-free. So if police focus their limited resources at these problem places-a practice known as hot spots policing-they...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195341961
• ISBN13: 9780195341966
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"