Weisburd, David L. (Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, Hebrew University Faculty of Law and University of Maryland, College Park)

The Criminology of Place: Street Segments and Our Understanding of the Crime Problem Weisburd, David L. (Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, Hebrew University Faculty of Law and University of Maryland, College Park)

David Weisburd, Elizabeth Groff, and Sue-Ming Yang present a new way of looking at crime by examining why specific streets in a city have specific crime trends over time. Reorienting the study of crime by focusing not on individuals and communities, but on small units of geography, the authors identify a large group of possible crime risk and protective factors for street segments and an array of interventions that could be implemented to address them. Agroundbreaking book, The Criminology of Place radically alters traditional thinking about the crime problem and what we should do about it.