ABSTRACT
This textbook began in Chapter 1 stating that spatial criminology was not new, beginning almost 200 years ago, and that the trajectory of this research has been continually moving towards smaller spatial units of analysis. In this last chapter, on crime and place, we will focus on the smallest spatial unit of analysis that has been used in citywide analyses of crime. This smallest spatial unit of analysis can be the discrete address, the street intersection, or street segments, sometimes referred to as micro-places or the micro-spatial unit of analysis. However, the street segment is the most common spatial unit of analysis in the crime and place literature.
