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David Weisburd is a criminologist who researched crime in Brooklyn’s 72nd Precinct and found that crime occurs in concentrated areas. Weisburd applied these findings to his later research with fellow criminologist Larry Sherman. Weisburd and Sherman investigated crime statistics in Minneapolis years later. Weisburd and Sherman used their findings in the Minneapolis study to develop the Law of Crime Concentration, which suggests that “crime is tied to very specific places and contexts.”
David Weisburd Quotes in Talking to Strangers
The Talking to Strangers quotes below are all either spoken by David Weisburd or refer to David Weisburd. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 10
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Like suicide, crime is tied to very specific places and contexts. Weisburd’s experiences in the 72nd Precinct and in Minneapolis are not idiosyncratic. They capture something close to a fundamental truth about human behavior. And that means that when you confront the stranger, you have to ask yourself where and when you’re confronting the stranger—because those two things powerfully influence your interpretation of who the stranger is.
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David Weisburd Quotes in Talking to Strangers
The Talking to Strangers quotes below are all either spoken by David Weisburd or refer to David Weisburd. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 10
Quotes
Like suicide, crime is tied to very specific places and contexts. Weisburd’s experiences in the 72nd Precinct and in Minneapolis are not idiosyncratic. They capture something close to a fundamental truth about human behavior. And that means that when you confront the stranger, you have to ask yourself where and when you’re confronting the stranger—because those two things powerfully influence your interpretation of who the stranger is.
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