ABSTRACT
Recent research in spatial criminology has shown that calls for police service are highly concentrated with 5 percent of street segments (or less) accounting for 50 percent of such calls (Sherman et al., 1989; Weisburd et al., 2004; Andresen and Malleson, 2011). In addition, this recent research (some of which is presented in Chapter 10) has shown that spatial crime patterns, particularly at small and microspatial units of analysis, vary significantly across crime classifications (Andresen, 2009a; Andresen and Malleson, 2011). This has a number of implications for the measurement of crime.
