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The purpose of this study was to suggest juvenile’s spatial vulnerability measure of school zone crime and its implication procedures. Theoretical review examined environmental conditions in conjunction with school zone crimes targeting youths and behavior patterns expected from users’ daily routine activities on the basis of situational criminology theories. This study also examined and used agent-based model and simulation method to consider user behaviors including youths, attackers and supervisors that interacted with other users and environment. Environmental conditions with the overall street configuration were considered as per four different use types: school area, residential area, commercial area and open space area. The implemented juvenile’s spatial vulnerability measure of school zone crime was derived from the visiting ratio at each spot through agents’ simulated actions in the proposed model. Finally, the measure provided the meso-level information to evaluate quantitatively youth’s vulnerability to school zone crime.