Quantitative Methods and Crime

Crime emerged as a topic of quantitative study in the eighteenth century and scholars today analyze it using methods drawn from all of the social sciences. Crimes are distinctive for their rarity and for their social and geographic concentration. One response to these features is to adjust for them when performing standard statistical analyses. An alternative is to take the features as essential aspects of the phenomenon under study, and give them an important role within models for longitudinal and spatial data.