ABSTRACT
The relationship of violent actions to citizen perceptions of crime and their own physical vulnerability is complex. Some crimes are regarded as victimless on the presumption that they are a matter only of private harm and do not bring harm to others. Moreover, the concentrations of sales in dwelling as well as on street locations opens residential housing and communities to nonresidential as well as residential users who engage in crimes of prostitution, robbery, burglary, and theft to obtain money to purchase drugs. Since the eighteenth century the chapter has known that offenders and their crimes are not uniformly distributed in residential space and that the risks of offending and victimization vary enormously in time and space. Although the wisdom of territorially based policies to cope with crimes and violence seems firmly established, such policies are often poorly implemented to address the problems of community life.
