Questions about the Crime Concentrates poster

What’s on the Crime Concentrates poster?

A definition and 5 facts worth remembering. Crime is not spread evenly. Its concentration is stable enough to be planned around. A few street segments carry much of the crime; Repeat victims account for a large share of offences; A minority of offenders commit most recorded crime; Concentration is stable across years, not noise; Concentration is what makes targeting feasible; Weisburd's law — About half of crime on ~5% of segments; Implication — Target places, not whole districts; Hot spot mapping is the operational use of this finding.. Educational reference. Exact ratios vary by city and offence; the pattern is robust, the precise figures are not.

Who is the Crime Concentrates poster for?

Crime Concentrates belongs to the Criminal Justice section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning criminological theory can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Crime Concentrates poster?

The empirical basis for targeting anything: places, victims or people. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Crime Concentrates belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Crime Concentrates?

The Classical School, Control Theories and The Crime Drop sit alongside Crime Concentrates in the Criminal Justice section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.The Classical SchoolControl TheoriesThe Crime Drop

Is the Crime Concentrates poster free to download and print?

Yes. Crime Concentrates downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Criminal Justice section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Crime Concentrates poster print at?

Crime Concentrates is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Crime Concentrates loses nothing.Printing guide