Crime is a major ‘research subject’ in the social sciences and a ‘concern’ in policy making. Hence, criminology emerged as a specialised discipline which is gradually building a theoretical body of its own. However, since the phenomenon of crime is highly complex and multi-dimensional, any single theory of crime cannot cover all aspects. What is more critical is the effective use and improvement of these theories. Through analytical investigation, theories are categorised and represented both in a ‘generic diagram’ and in a ‘detailed typology for criminological theories from a place-oriented (spatio-temporality) perspective’, according to their “placeliness” and “placelessness”; direct or indirect relationship to place-based or other causal contexts; and scale of ecological analysis as micro, meso, or macro. These categories, within which new ecology is further differentiated as “early” and “late”, are identified with respect to their reasoning and perception of the concept in the historical-structural conditions they were founded in, the research question, the research fields and the policy proposals. It is expected that drawing a holistic picture of theories has a potential to support criminology researchers with a higher awareness of their domain.

犯罪是社会科学的主要“研究课题”，也是政策制定的“关注点”。因此，犯罪学作为一门专业学科出现，并逐渐建立了自己的理论体系。但是，由于犯罪现象具有高度复杂性和多维性，任何单一的犯罪理论都无法涵盖所有​​方面。更关键的是这些理论的有效运用和改进。通过分析研究，理论分类并在一个“表示二者通用的图”，并在“详细类型学从犯罪学理论地方取向的（时空-时间性）透视”，根据它们的“ placeliness ”和“无处可去”；直接或间接关系到地方-基于或其他因果情境; 生态分析的微观、中观或宏观尺度。在这些类别中，新生态学被进一步区分为“早期”和“晚期”，根据他们在其创立的历史结构条件下对概念的推理和感知、研究问题、研究领域和政策建议。预计绘制理论的整体图景有可能支持犯罪学研究人员对其领域有更高的认识。