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SUMMARY:Hot Spots of Crime: Where\, When and Why? - Lawrence Sherman
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CONTACT:Dr Katherine Bowers
DESCRIPTION:Less than five percent of the land in any city attracts well o
 ver half of all serious crimes. Since we first discovered this pattern in 
 Minneapolis in 1987\, it has been replicated on five continents in uncount
 ed cities\, and is now mapped daily by a wide range of commercial software
 . It has led to substantial changes in police and crime prevention strateg
 ies\, and may have contributed to a cross-national drop in crime over the 
 past two decades. But many questions remain about whether targeting hot sp
 ots merely displaces it to other locations\, or whether recent crime patte
 rns are better predictors than multi-year patterns. Darwin PhD student Cri
 stobal Weinborn will report his analyses of 12 years of hot spots data fro
 m nearby Peterborough. Darwin Fellow Lawrence Sherman will review the effe
 cts of experiments targeting hot spots in the US\, UK and the Caribbean. W
 arning: this seminar may make you less afraid of crime--as long as you sta
 y out of hot spots.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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