Introduction to special issue: Spatial approaches to community and place violence

• Published in: Criminal justice review (Atlanta, Ga.) Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 132 - 133
• Main Authors: Grubb, Jonathan, Drawve, Grant
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.06.2021; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Crime; CRIME PREVENTION; Criminal behavior, Prediction of; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; Criminal justice, Administration of; CRIMINOLOGY; VICTIMS OF CRIME; VIOLENCE; ecology and crime/spatial analysis; structural theories of crime causation; violent behavior; crime/delinquency theory
• ISSN: 0734-0168; 1556-3839
• DOI: 10.1177/0734016821997537

There has been continual growth in the availability of address and neighborhood-level crime data allowing for many spatial approaches to crime occurrence (see Hipp and Williams, 2020). Through the availability of data and the development in analytical software for analyses, spatial approaches to understanding crime occurrence have grown more complex. This special issue aims to advance knowledge of the "where" characteristic of crime but through a more transparent lens of how. We understand that data cannot always be shared given the nature of criminal justice related data but the analytical steps taken can be (to an extent), allowing for future researchers to replicate the analytical approach with their own data.