Hot spot
Definition
A small geographic area, sometimes as small as a single address or street segment, where crime concentrates at a rate substantially above the surrounding area. Hot-spot analysis is the spatial equivalent of repeat victimisation analysis applied at the place level.
Related terms
- Boost theory
- The explanation that repeat victimisation arises because the original offender returns, having gained operational knowledge of the target, its routines, and its...
- Flag theory
- The explanation that repeat victimisation arises because a target has stable characteristics, such as poor natural surveillance or weak security, that make...
- Lifestyle-routine activity theory
- A framework that links individual victimisation risk to the daily routines and lifestyle choices that bring potential victims into proximity with motivated...
- Repeat victimisation
- The empirical pattern in which a small proportion of people or locations experience a disproportionate share of violent incidents. Domestic violence shows...
- Series victimisation
- A pattern in which a victim experiences multiple similar incidents so frequently that they cannot recall each one individually. Domestic abuse is...
Explained in
- Victimisation Patterns and Repeat VictimisationA small geographic area, sometimes as small as a single address or street segment, where crime concentrates at a rate substantially above the surrounding area....