Marcus Felson is a solid candidate. He (with Lawrence Cohen) invented the Routine Activity Theory which is very influential. That paper alone has 15k google scholar citations.
Patricia & Paul Brantingham similarly invented the Crime pattern theory which is big.
The 3 of them jointly?
Patricia & Paul Brantingham similarly invented the Crime pattern theory which is big.
The 3 of them jointly?
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Wesley Skogan is a good name here, or more recently John Hipp.
& ofc Wilson & Kelling who invented the broken windows theory - but that is a bit controversial, so kind of doubt it.
Andrew Papachristos is an interesting name as well. Among his areas there is stuff on gun violence & social networks and crime.