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Seattle Crime Places study  

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  • While some criminologists in the 1800s were interested in the relationship between crime and places (e.g., the statistician Adolphe Quetelet and the social researcher Andre-Michel Guerry), it was not a focal point of the discipline. Until the latter part of the 20th century, criminologists were predominantly concerned with the examination of individual explanations for criminality and community crime rates. [Source: Encyclopedia of Street Crime in America; Seattle Crime Places Study]

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