Why do a few addresses have so much crime but most places have so little? And what can we do about it? These are the questions we tackle in this book. The theory, evidence, and practices we discuss developed over 30 years, beginning in the early 1990s. The theory, evidence, and practices were the result of many collaborations among academics, police officials, and community members. In the process, our research led new crime reduction strategies and made us question some basic ideas in criminology. This book is the first all-encompassing description of place management theory and practice. It is the prequel to our earlier work, Whose ‘Eyes on the Street’ Control Crime? Expanding Place Management into Neighborhoods. In that book, we show how place management creates safe or unsafe areas within cities. It begins where this book ends. The people who own and operate places are the subject of this book. We designed this book for a broad audience. Students and their instructors should find it useful for exploring the criminology of place and challenging community criminology. Activist readers, those in communities or government agencies, interested in doing something about crime, will find our book useful for developing crime reduction strategies.