We welcome articles that examine how neighborhood structure shapes crime and victimization, with a particular focus on housing. Crime is unevenly distributed across space, reflecting long-standing patterns of segregation, disinvestment, and racial and ethnic stratification. Housing — through tenure, quality, affordability, and residential change — plays a key role in shaping neighborhood cohesion, social ties, and exposure to crime. We aim to integrate research on neighborhood structure, including residential turnover, poverty, guardianship, and housing dynamics across multiple spatial scales and methodological approaches, to better understand how place shapes crime and safety.
Contributions are welcome from around the globe. We invite relevant submissions from scholars in the American Society of Criminology (ASC), the European Society of Criminology, and the wider international criminology community. Articles should be 7,000–8,000 words (including references) and formatted in APA style.
Submissions full papers: October 31, 2026
Expected publication: August, 2027