ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on urban crime patterns deals with data aggregated by type of crime, race and/or income level of the criminal. Geographers, by focusing on criminal spatial behavior and by examining the spatial relations among the locations of crimes and the residences of criminals who commit them, can offer potentially significant contributions to this issue. Differences in criminality as well as in the type of crime committed by individuals of each sex, for the most part, do not result from physical differences between the sexes, but are more likely to reflect the differing socialization patterns of males and females. Female criminals would be expected to choose locations for their crimes closer to their places of residence than would male criminals. The Central Business District is the most frequent crime location for both male and female burglars who commit their crime outside the area in which they live.
