Completed Activities


  • Organization of four sessions at the 2017 annual meeting of the European Society of Criminology:
    1. New Approaches - Reconciling offence and offender locations (Henk Elffers, Andrew Lemieux, Samuel Langton, Stijn Ruiter)
    2. Spatial and temporal patterning in city and cyber environments (Fernando Miró-Llinares, Muhammad Salman Haleem, Won Do Lee, Sabine van Sleeuwen)
    3. Risk and Prediction (Martin A. Andresen, Alejandro Gimenez-Santana, Wim Hardyns, Mark Ellison)
    4. New Approaches using or informing police intelligence and policing practices (Sabine De Moor, Andrew Newton, Karolina Krzemieniewska-Nandwani, Stephanie Wallace)

  • Organization of four sessions at the 2016 annual meeting of the European Society of Criminology:
    1. Crime Opportunity, Generators and Attractors (Torbjørn Skardhamar, Alina Ristea, Christophe Vandeviver, Barbara Menting)
    2. Criminology of Place (Ellie Bates, Manuel Lopez, Henk Elffers)
    3. Neighborhoods (Manne Gerell, Petri Danielsson, Dietrich Oberwittler, Göran Köber)
    4. Observing Crime (Iris van Sintemaartensdijk, Wouter Steenbeek, Heleen Janssen, Christina Zarafonitou, Eon Kim)

  • Organization of four sessions (PDF) at the 2015 annual meeting of the European Society of Criminology:
    1. Recuding Crime (Alexandra Gomes, Kate Bowers, Henk Elffers, Torbjørn Skardhamar)
    2. Crime Attractors and Crime Generators (Nuno Alvin, Wouter Steenbeek, Stijn Ruiter, Heleen Janssen)
    3. The Geography of Crime (Marre Lammers, Rafael Valente, Maria Francisca Rebocho, Ella Cockbain)
    4. Location Choice (Lucas Melgaço, Wim Bernasco, Mattias de Backer, Barbara Menting)

  • First meeting of the fledgling Working Group: On september 4, 2015, we had our very first meeting at the ESC conference