Place Management and Crime : Ownership and Property Rights As a Source of Social Control

SpringerBriefs in Crime and Place presents concise summaries of cutting-edge research across the field of Crime and Place. It publishes small but impactful volumes of between 50-125 pages, with a clearly defined focus. The series covers a broad range of Crime and Place research, including: experimental design and advanced research methods, crime prevention, the role of communities and places, policy-related applications, and methodological issues in crime and place research at various units of analysis. The scope of the series spans the whole field of Crime and Place, including the communities they are within, on the leading edge and advancing research. It is international and cross-disciplinary, including a broad array of topics, including the importance of the micro-place in research, policing, crime prevention, quantitative methods, experimental methods, research design and analysis, and crime prevention when considering a spatial perspective. SpringerBriefs in Crime and Place will be of interest to a broad range of researchers and practitioners working in Crime and Place research and in related academic fields such as Sociology, Geography, Public Health, and Economics. This brief describes the theory and evidence of a form of social control known as place management. Created by property owners, place management is an alternative to the two other domains of social control: formally created by the state and informally created by residents. It helps explain the high concentration of crime and disorder at a relatively small proportion of addresses and facilities. This volume examines the specifics of place management and extends it in three ways: to show how high crime places may radiate crime into their surroundings; to reveal networks of places that create crime hotspot spanning blocks; to demonstrate how networks of place managers influence crime throughout neighborhoods. Finally, it shows that the policy implications of place management extend far beyond the police and should include regulatory policies.