Crime count and crime harm in a post-socialist city: How does the law of crime concentration at places apply?

0535459 - SOÚ 2023 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Šimon, Martin - Jíchová, J.
Crime count and crime harm in a post-socialist city: How does the law of crime concentration at places apply?
European Journal of Criminology. Roč. 19, č. 6 (2022), s. 1349-1366. ISSN 1477-3708. E-ISSN 1741-2609
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA19-03211S
Institutional support: RVO:68378025
Keywords : law of crime concentration * crime at places * crime hotspots * post-socialist city * Czechia
OECD category: Sociology
Impact factor: 1.9, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1477370820973993

This article reports on a new empirical study evaluating crime concentration at places in a postsocialist city. We use principles of the law of crime concentration at places and the Cambridge Crime Harm Index to measure crime count and crime harm concentration at the level of street segments. The research found differences between crime concentration in a post-socialist city and crime concentration reported by recent studies from US or UK cities. Both crime and harm concentration are consistently less spatially clustered than expected by the theory in a postsocialist city. This finding has significance for both international criminology and national policing authorities, because the success of place-based policing is highly dependent on strong spatial clustering of crime. The study underlines the importance of experimental criminology and theory testing for the transfer of crime prevention approaches from their original contexts.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0313474