Because much criminological research is funded by the state. at least part of the correc- tionalist impulse of the geography of crime can be attributed to sources of funding. Thus Pyle et al.'s Spatial Dynumirs of Crime (I974) was devised "to develop an improved method of col- Iection. handling. and analysis ofcriminaljustice data . . . [so] that more effective law enforce- ment planning could be made possible" (p. I). This criminal justice orientation adopted by geographers has tended to limit the kind of descriptions and explanations developed. By relying on official statistics. geographers have typically taken the criminal justice system's own image ofthe crime problem for granted. and crit- icism of the system has been essentially denied.