Crime Concentration Index
The crime concentration index quantifies how unevenly crime is distributed across micro-geographic places such as street segments or addresses. Building on Sherman, Gartin, and Buerger's 1989 discovery that a small fraction of addresses produces most calls for police service, and formalized in Weisburd's 2015 'law of crime concentration', it expresses the share of all crime accounted for by the most crime-prone places.
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- Sherman, L. W., Gartin, P. R., & Buerger, M. E. (1989). Hot spots of predatory crime: Routine activities and the criminology of place. Criminology, 27(1), 27–56. DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1989.tb00862.x ↗
- Weisburd, D. (2015). The law of crime concentration and the criminology of place. Criminology, 53(2), 133–157. DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12070 ↗
How to cite this page
ScholarGate. (2026, June 22). Crime Concentration Index and the Law of Crime Concentration at Place. ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/en/criminology/crime-concentration-index
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