Crime Concentrations

Hot Dots, Hot Spots and Hot Flushes

Dainis Ignatans, Ken Pease

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Every research enterprise takes place in a context, political, economic, and technological. So it is with policing research. We begin by sketching out where we think the practice of policing is heading, and what we need to do differently, so as to get to a roughly envisioned future ethically and in good order. A police presence at all places at all times being impossible, the practical issue is where and when to place officers or their technological surrogates. The chapter will consider optimised distribution of effort and resource, given the central aim of fairness in the distribution of crime harm. We will illustrate current levels of inequality of victimisation, and claim that reducing the current concentration, at individual and area levels, should be an explicit underpinning vision for policing. We briefly review the relevant literature and its implications
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Oxford Handbook of Environmental Criminology
EditorsGerben Bruinsma, Shane Johnson
PublisherOxford University Press
Pages664-690
Number of pages27
ISBN (Print)9780190279707
Publication statusPublished - 29 Mar 2018

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Ignatans, D., & Pease, K. (2018). Crime Concentrations: Hot Dots, Hot Spots and Hot Flushes. In G. Bruinsma, & S. Johnson (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Criminology (pp. 664-690). Oxford University Press.
Ignatans, Dainis ; Pease, Ken. / Crime Concentrations : Hot Dots, Hot Spots and Hot Flushes. The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Criminology. editor / Gerben Bruinsma ; Shane Johnson. Oxford University Press, 2018. pp. 664-690
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Ignatans D, Pease K. Crime Concentrations: Hot Dots, Hot Spots and Hot Flushes. In Bruinsma G, Johnson S, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Criminology. Oxford University Press. 2018. p. 664-690

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