NDLI: Where the Action is in Crime? An Examination of Variability of Crime Across Different Spatial Units in The Hague, 2001

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Author	Steenbeek, Wouter Weisburd, David
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	To identify how much of the variability of crime in a city can be attributed to micro (street segment), meso (neighborhood), and macro (district) levels of geography. We define the extent to which different levels of geography are important in understanding the crime problem within cities and how those relationships change over time.Data are police recorded crime events for the period 2001–2009. More than 400,000 crime events are geocoded to about 15,000 street segments, nested within 114 neighborhoods, in turn nested within 44 districts. Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients are used to describe the crime concentration at the three spatial levels. Linear mixed models with random slopes of time are used to estimate the variance attributed to each level.About 58–69 % of the variability of crime can be attributed to street segments, with most of the remaining variability at the district level. Our findings suggest that micro geographic units are key to understanding the crime problem and that the neighborhood does not add significantly beyond what is learned at the micro and macro levels. While the total number of crime events declines over time, the importance of street segments increases over time.Our findings suggest that micro geographic units are key to understanding the variability of crime within cities—despite the fact that they have received little criminological focus so far. Moreover, our results raise a strong challenge to recent focus on such meso geographic units as census block groups.
Starting Page	449
Ending Page	469
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF
ISSN	07484518
Journal	Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Volume Number	32
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15737799
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2015-12-24
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	The criminology of place Crime and place Law of crime concentration Crime trends Street segment Hierarchical model Criminology & Criminal Justice Sociology Methodology of the Social Sciences Statistics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Law Pathology and Forensic Medicine

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