Dr. Martin A. Andresen is a professor in the School of Criminology and Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies at Simon Fraser University. He is also an associate member of the Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University. Dr. Andresen received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics from Simon Fraser University, and his Ph.D. in geography from the University of British Columbia. Dr. Andresen’s research interests are in crime and places, environmental criminology, the geography of crime, spatial crime analysis, and applied spatial statistics and geographical information analysis. Most of Dr. Andresen’s recent research has involved investigations of the spatial aspect of criminal events at a variety of scales and various applications of the spatial point pattern test he developed. He is a member of the Crime and Place Working Group within the CEBCP Research Program on Crime and Place and is on the editorial boards for Journal of Criminal Justice; Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice; International Criminal Justice Review; Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society; and Methodological Innovations Online.