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48 J. Res. Crime & Delinquency 3 (2011)

handle is hein.journals/jrcd48 and id is 1 raw text is: Introduction journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 48(I) 3-6 From the Editor @ The Author(s) 2011 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0022427810396680 http://jrcd.sagepub.com OSAGE This special issue of Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (JRCD) presents an important collection of papers on crime and place. Since the introduction of this perspective in Crime and Place, volume 4 in Crime Prevention Studies (Eck and Weisburd 1995), researchers have applied increasingly powerful tools of spatial analysis to test criminological theory and assess crime prevention initiatives. The crime and place perspec- tive is both more abstract and practical than traditional approaches to under- standing crime. While people provide a natural unit of analysis, what constitutes a place is abstract, providing more opportunities to customize measures and data collection. At the same time place-based analysis is more useful in preventing crime, as articles in this special issue demonstrate. JRCD has always specialized in publishing theory-based empirical research. That continues to be the case with this special issue. However arti- cles here draw more on opportunity-based theories than what is sometimes called propensity-based theory. Researchers in this special issue focus on how crime is done, and the role of place in providing or thwarting opportu- nities for crime. Although this approach will be unfamiliar to many readers, it is central to environmental criminology that examines how place affects crime. This is the first special issue of JRCD in several years. The topic was pro- posed by the guest editors who solicited contributions from individual authors and issued a general call-for-papers. I am very grateful to George Rengert, Elizabeth Groff, and John Eck for developing the special issue, assembling these papers, and for managing the review process. All papers were read by outside referees. Some papers were submitted to the special issue but not accepted for publication. I am also grateful to the authors for doing the research that appears here and for persisting with revisions through the review process. Mike Maxfield John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NY, USA

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