David Weisburd

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David L. Weisburd (* 1954 ) is an Israeli-American sociologist and criminologist . In 2010 he was awarded the Stockholm Prize in Criminology for his contributions to criminal geography . He is a professor at the George Mason University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

Career and research

After studying at Brandeis University and Yale University , where he received his doctorate in sociology in 1985 , he taught as a professor at Rutgers University until 1993 and at the University of Maryland from 2002 to 2008 . There are also visiting professorships at Griffith University in Australia , Cambridge University and at the Zehjiang Chinese Police Academy in Hangzhou . He was also head of research at various government institutions.

Weisburd works on the methodology of criminology and white-collar crime , he became internationally known for his place-based criminology (apartment blocks, street corners). He analyzed locations at which there was a particularly high level of crime and derived suggestions for crime prevention .

Using a longitudinal study, Weisburd and his staff found that in Seattle over 50 percent of crimes were committed in just five to six percent of the city's street sections. The crime concentration remained stable for 16 years. These results were confirmed by studies in Tel Aviv . The results of an initial evaluation for the cities of Essen and Mülheim an der Ruhr suggest a similar distribution of crime in Germany .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weisburd, David; Shawn Bushway, Cynthia Lum, Sue-ming Yang (2004). "Crime Trajectories at Places: A Longitudinal Study of Street Segments in the City of Seattle". Criminology 42 (2): 283-322.
  2. ↑ Weisburd, David; Elizabeth Groff, Sue-ming Yang (2012). The Criminology of Place: Street Segments And Our Understanding of the Crime Problem. Oxford University Press.
  3. ↑ Hasisi, Badi; David Weisburd. "Policing Terrorism and Police-Community Relations: Views of the Arab Minority in Israel". Police Practice and Research 15 (2): 158-172.
  4. ^ Kai Seidensticker: Crime in microsegments. Results of an evaluation for Essen and Mülheim an der Ruhr. In: forum crime prevention . No. 4/2017 . German Forum for Crime Prevention Foundation, 2017, p. 26-31 ( [1] ).
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SURNAME Weisburd, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weisburd, David L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli-American sociologist and criminologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1954