La ley de la concentración aplicada al estudio espacial y temporal del delito

The law of concentration, or Pareto principle, affirms that 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes. Applied to crime, the law posits that crime is not distributed randomly or uniformly in space or time, but rather that most crime happens in the most criminogenic places and temporal units, in li...

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Published in:Boletín criminológico 2024-01 (223), p.1-22
Main Author: Summers, Lucía
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
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Crime prevention
Pareto optimum
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Summary:The law of concentration, or Pareto principle, affirms that 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes. Applied to crime, the law posits that crime is not distributed randomly or uniformly in space or time, but rather that most crime happens in the most criminogenic places and temporal units, in line with these 80/20 proportions. This article presents this law, illustrates its application using original analyses and summaries from other studies, and explains the methodology for creating cumulative and Lorenz curves, and for measuring levels of concentration using the Gini coefficient. The implications of the law of concentration for crime prevention are also discussed.
ISSN:1137-2427
2254-2043