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Hot Spots
Crime is not randomly distributed; it tends to be concentrated in certain areas. Researchers who have found these patterns have taken to calling high-crime areas “hot spots.” Identified crime hot spots can be broken down into specific areas, including neighborhoods, streets, ...
- History and Popular Culture of Street Crime
- Bratton, William
- Broken Windows Theory
- Central Park Jogger Incident
- Community Policing
- Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH)
- Diallo, Amadou
- Genovese, Kitty
- Giuliani, Rudolph
- Goetz, Bernhard
- Grand Theft Auto (Video Game)
- History of Street Crime in America
- Immigrant Neighborhoods
- Kansas City Preventative Patrol Experiment
- Kerner Commission on Civil Disorders
- Maple, Jack
- Neighborhood Watch
- Newark Foot Patrol Experiment
- Prostitution, Houses of
- Seattle Crime Places Study
- Skid Row
- Speakeasies (1920s)
- Street Crime, Popular Portrayals of
- Tawana Brawley Incident
- Television Shows
- Tompkins Square Riots/Tent City
- Law Enforcement, Courts, and Corrections
- Alcohol and Drug Testing, On-Scene
- Arrest
- Bail
- Bounty Hunters
- Closed-Circuit Television
- Code of Silence/Stop Snitching
- CompStat
- Courts
- Courts, Drug
- Courts, Mental Health
- Crime Mapping
- Crime Scene Investigation
- Crime-Consumerism Nexus
- Day Reporting Center
- Guardian Angels
- Gunshot Detection System
- Jails
- Miranda Warnings
- Operation Ceasefire
- Patrol Cars
- Police (Overview)
- Police Brutality/Excessive Force
- Police Corruption, Street-Level
- Police Detectives
- Policing, Problem-Oriented
- Racial Profiling
- Security, Private
- Sting Operations
- Stop and Frisk
- Street Crime Defined
- Nonviolent Crimes
- “Johns”
- Alcohol and Drug Use
- Bicycle Theft
- Black Market
- Blackmail
- Blue Laws
- Bootleggers
- Counterfeit Goods
- Credit Card Theft
- Door-to-Door Scam Artists
- Drinking, Underage
- Drug Markets, Open-Air
- Gambling, Street
- Graffiti
- Jaywalking
- Juvenile Curfews
- Loitering
- Looting
- Metal Theft
- Motor Vehicle Theft
- Needle Exchanges
- Open-Container Laws
- Panhandling or Begging
- Peep Shows
- Peeping Toms
- Pickpocketing
- Pimp
- Prostitute/Streetwalker
- Prostitution, Houses of
- Shoplifting
- Truancy
- Organized Crime and Gangs
- Perpetrators
- Street Crime in Cities
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Buffalo, New York
- Chicago, Illinois
- Cincinnati, Ohio
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Detroit, Michigan
- Indianapolis, Indiana
- Kansas City, Missouri
- Los Angeles, California
- Miami, Florida
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- New York City
- Newark, New Jersey
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- San Francisco, California
- St. Louis, Missouri
- Washington, D.C.
- Urban Life/Criminology Theory
- Street Corner Society
- Street Crime (Online Game)
- Bar Personnel
- Bars and Pubs
- Bystander Apathy
- Code of the Street
- Crime Prevention, Situational
- Crime, Displacement of
- Defensible Space Theory
- Drinking Establishments, Unlicensed
- Environmental Criminology
- Fear of Crime
- Gated Communities
- Gentrification
- Homelessness
- Hooliganism
- Hot Spots
- Mass Transit, Crime on
- Massage Parlors
- Pool Halls
- Projects, The
- Routine Activity Theory
- Stalking
- Street Art
- Street/Block Parties
- Suite Crimes Versus Street Crimes
- Urban Ethnography
- Urban Incivility
- Urban Planning
- Urbanization
- Victims
- Violent Crimes
- Arson
- Bank Robbery
- Burglary
- Domestic Violence
- Drive-By Shooting
- Guns and Weapons
- Hate Crime
- Homophobic Assault
- Juvenile Offending
- Kidnapping
- Mobs and Riots
- Mugging
- Murder/Homicide
- Organized Crime and Violence
- Racial Assault
- Rape and Sexual Assault
- Road Rage
- Serial Killers, Spree Killers, and Mass Murderers
- Sex Crimes
- Terrorism
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