Rutgers at 50: Assessing the Evolution of Crime and Place Research

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

This panel traces the history of crime and place research by faculty members, students, and alumni of Rutgers School of Criminal Justice in commemoration of its 50th anniversary. We frame the discussion by first acknowledging the role that the spatial analysis of crime has played in both effective crime reduction and harmful over-policing of communities experiencing hot spots of crime. We discuss how crime and place research has also informed problem solving, situational crime prevention, risk terrain modeling, and routine activities-informed interventions that focus not just on likely perpetrators of crime in specific places but also the contexts, opportunities, and non-police stakeholders who can be engaged to reduce crime. Crime and place research has further evolved to recognize the power of lived experience and community engaged research in response to violent crime, as well as how spatial analysis in combination with intelligence and risk analysis can be a powerful tool to promote safety and security across the globe.

Sub Unit

• Area II. Perspectives on Crime / 5. Routine Activities and Situational Perspectives

Individual Presentations

• From Oakland to Brisbane: Tracing Partnership Approaches in Policing that Target Places - Lorraine Mazerolle, University of Queensland

• Life After the Gunshot: A Place-Based Approach to Community Violence through Community Engaged Research in the Nation's Capital - Joseph Richardson, University of Maryland

• Place-Based Problem Solving for Public Safety - Eric Piza, Northeastern University

• Understanding Criminal Intelligence and Risk Analysis Across Disciplines, Space, and Time - Christine Neudecker, JP Morgan Chase

Chairs

• Nancy LaVigne, National Institute of Justice

• Leslie Kennedy, Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice

Organized by a Division or external group?

Rutgers at 50 Anniversary Panel