Hot Spots of Crime and Crime Prevention

Weisburd, ADJ, Speaks in the Vision Series

Monday, February 15, 2010 2:00 PM EST
Center For the Arts Concert Hall

David Weisburd, Distinguished Professor of Administration of Justice will discuss the implications of his research about decreasing crime in American communities.  Crime at place is relatively stable across time.  Good neighborhoods have crime hot spots, and problematic areas have many streets mostly free of crime.  Focusing crime prevention on specific places does not cause crime to simply "move around the corner."  These findings have lead Professor Weisburd to focus on the concept of hot spots of crime.  In this lecture, he will argue that place-based crime prevention is a good investment, and that it is likely to lead to more crime control with fewer people being processed by the criminal justice system.

The Vision Series is a series of eight lectures sponsored by George Mason Univeristy's Office of the Provost.  The series highlights the work of top researchers, artists, and scholars from diverse disciplines like Economics, History and Art History, Public Policy, Global and Community Health, and Education and Human Development.

For more information about the Vision Series, visit http://gmu.edu/cfa/vision.

 

Free to the public!  Tickets available online at gmu.edu/cfa/vision, or at the Center for the Arts Ticket Office and on the evening of each presentation.  Sorry phone orders are not taken.

Sponsored by George Mason University Office of the Provost.