Citation

Kim S, LaGrange RL, Willis CL. Urban Aff. Rev. 2013; 49(1): 141-155.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1078087412465401

PMID

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Abstract

Standard sociology and criminology have not been sufficiently sensitive to the unique characteristics that places have. It has been implicitly assumed that one place (be it a neighborhood, census track, or metropolitan area) is interchangeable with another, given certain demographic and economic variables. This article attempts to recast environmental criminology within a sociological framework known as the "sociology of place." The unequal spatial distribution of crime makes it an ideal candidate for analysis within this sociological framework: crime is universal, yet spatially concentrated; targets everyone, yet not everyone equally; is socially constructed, yet has a very real physical reality to it. The article addresses the important linkage between crime and place.

Language: en