The geography of crime was come in to existence from 1980s both in terms of research and the disposition to move into new kinds of topical areas (Relph Edward, 1976). Social ecology is the first School of Thought in geography of crime which emerged from the Chicago School of thought. Environmental criminology, developed in the tradition of crime geography. The term “Environmental criminology” was coined by the C. Ray Jeffery in 1971 in his book entitled “Crime Prevention through Environmental Design” (M. Andresen, Brantingham and Kinney, 2010). Both School of Thought retained the principles of the classical school of criminology, but the focus of environmental criminology was the environment or place over where the crime occurs. (Andresen, M., Brantingham, P., Kinney, 2010). The earlier attempts of crime analysis in this evolving phase of crime geography had an unclear boundary between the geography of crime and criminology. Geography of crime studies the spatial structure, environmental association, features of a place and their association with crime (Relph Edward, 1976). According to Georges (1978), “Geography of crime is defined as “the study of spatial manifestation of criminal acts. It is the study of social and cultural organization of criminal behavior in spatial perspective”. Analyzing crime in Jalgaon City is of critical importance due to its unique position as a commercial, industrial, and transport hub in North Maharashtra. This paper try to unfold the spatial analysis of crime in Jalgaon city for the year 2020 to 2021.
Raju Suresh Gaware (2024) studied this question.