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This volume set out to answer three specific research questions detailing the continuing problem of homicide in the city of Chicago. Over the entire 53-year study period, homicides approximately conform to the laws of crime concentration – just 5% of the micro places contain about half of the 36,176 homicides in the study. We address several of the limitations of the multi-method approach that was used. The importance of this work is improving public policy and advancing criminological theory. We clearly illustrate the need for researchers and public policy analysts to go beyond near-term crime patterns and examine crime patterns in a historical lens to uncover both contemporary and historical causes for spatial and temporal hot spots of crime.
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Wheeler, A.P., Herrmann, C.R., Block, R.L. (2021). Conclusion. In: Micro-Place Homicide Patterns in Chicago. SpringerBriefs in Criminology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61446-1_6
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