ABSTRACT
Spatial patterning of crime has long been observed. Guerry (1833) noted conviction rate differences between the departments of France early in the nineteenth century. Tobias (1972: 122-147) has lately described fine differences in the distribution of criminal residences and crimes in Victorian London and Manchester. Burt (1925), Shaw and McKay (1969), and many other criminal ecologists (see Voss and Petersen 1971) reported the spatial patterning of criminal residence, while Brearly (1932), Reckless (1933), Schmid (1960a, 1960b), Shannon (1954), Harries (1971), and others reported the spatial patterning of criminal events.
