Patterns of Crime in a University Housing Project

In the past fifteen years it has been suggested by numerous authors that spatial analysis of urban areas can be employed by urban planners, architects, and others in related fields in order to construct environments which offer fewer chances for criminals to ply their trade (Jacobs, 1961; Jeffery, 1971; Newman, 1972). The major problem with past ecological studies is that they have told us where the offenders live, but not where crimes