ABSTRACT
Where does most recorded crime occur? Where do offenders and victims live and spend time? Are particular places perceived as more threatening than others and, if so, when and to whom? Is it possible to prevent crime by changing people’s surroundings? How can we theorize the surroundings, environments and spaces in which we live? What does it mean to think ‘spatially’? The aim of this chapter is to show how questions of space can enliven criminology.
