Lab co-director Dr. John R. Hipp gave the inaugural Crime and Place in the making lecture . The talk was on “The Spatial Scale of Crime: Consequences for Ecological Studies of Crime“. The series of talks in this webinar series is a joint initiative between Network Safe places at KTH and American Society of Criminology’s Division of Communities and Places (DCP). Dr. Hipp’s talk was based in part on his book that received the 2023 James Short Senior Scholar Award for best book or paper published, from the Division of Communities and Place in the American Society of Criminology.