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Martin A. Andresen

Professor
Criminology

BIOGRAPHY

Martin A. Andresen is a professor in the School of Criminology, 911³Ô¹Ï. He is also an Affiliated Scholar in the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy at George Mason University, a Member of the Crime and Place Working Group in the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy at George Mason University, a Member of the Space, Place, and Crime Working Group in the European Society of Criminology, and an editorial board member for: Journal of Criminal Justice; International Criminal Justice Review; Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society; and Methodological Innovations.

Martin A. Andresen's research areas are in spatial crime analysis, crime and place, geography of crime, and applied spatial statistics and geographical information analysis. Within these research areas he has published 5 books, 3 edited volumes, and more than 150 refereed journal articles and contributions to edited volumes.

AREAS OF INTEREST

Spatial crime analysis; crime and place; geography of crime; environmental criminology; applied spatial statistics and geographical information analysis.

EDUCATION

  • BA, MA (911³Ô¹Ï)
  • PhD (UBC)

Selected publications

  • Andresen, M.A. (2027). Environmental criminology: Evolution, theory, and practice (4th ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Andresen, M.A. (2027).  Understanding statistics in the social sciences: An intuitive approach. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Giacomantonio, C., Hodgkinson, T., & Andresen, M.A. (2025). Credence for clearance rates: Modeling police clearance rates in Canadian municipalities. Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, doi:10.1080/15614263.2025.2605452.
  • Andresen, M.A. (2026). The perils of averaging crime data: Consequences of a common practice. Journal of Criminal Justice, 105, Article 102703.
  • Weisburd, D., Favarin, S., Perry, G., & Andresen, M.A. (2026). Crime as a ``normal'' phenomenon: Revisiting Durkheim in the context of crime concentrations. Sociology Compass, 20(5), Article e70205.
  • Andresen, M.A., & Weisburd, D. (2026). Ockham's razor and the measurement of crime concentrations at places. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, doi:10.1007/s10940-025-09636-4.
  • Gao, Y., & Andresen, M.A. (2025). Generalized Gini coefficient, its statistical significance, and the local areas driving the global result. Journal of Criminal Justice, 101, Article 102524.
  • Hodgkinson, T., & Andresen, M.A. (2025). Preventing crime at places: The importance of recognizing that places exist within a broader social context. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 714(1), 134 – 149.
  • Weisburd, D., Zastrow, T., Kuen, K., & Andresen, M.A. (2024). Crime concentrations at micro place: A review of the evidence. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 78, Article 101979.
  • Andresen, M.A. (2022). Theorizing globally, but analyzing locally: The importance of geographically weighted regression in crime analysis. Crime Science, 11(1), Article 10.
  • Andresen, M.A., Malleson, N., Steenbeek, W., Townsley, M., & Vandeviver, C. (2020). Minimum geocoding match rates: An international study of the impact of data and areal unit sizes. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 34(7), 1306 – 1322.
  • Andresen, M.A., Curman, A.S.N., & Linning, S.J. (2017). The trajectories of crime at places: Understanding the patterns of disaggregated crime types. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 33(3), 427 – 449.
  • Andresen, M.A., Linning, S.J., & Malleson, N. (2017). Crime at places and spatial concentrations: Exploring the spatial stability of property crime in Vancouver BC, 2003-2013. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 33(2), 255 – 275.

Selected Awards and Honours

  • 2025 (2024 data): and top 1 percent of 17,522 criminologists (18th in the world), globally, based on career publications, citations, and h-index.
  • 2024 (2023 data): and top 1 percent of 12,726 criminologists (56th in the world), globally, based on career citations.
  • 2024 (2022 data): and top 1 percent of 16,945 criminologists (32nd in the world), globally, based on career publications, citations, and h-index.
  • 2023 (2022 data): and top 1 percent of 11,783 criminologists (63rd in the world), globally, based on career citations.

Courses

Fall 2026

Future courses may be subject to change.