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Watch a Video on An Examination of Crime Concentration Across 4 Cities in Southern California

January 20, 2017 by batesc

Crime events are not random. They cluster in space. In other words, certain blocks, neighborhoods, and cities have higher crime rates than others. The goal of spatial analysis of crime is not just to display where crimes occur but to understand why crimes occur where they do- and more specifically, why crime rates cluster where they do.

Criminologists who spatially analyze crime rates examine various characteristics of areas–most frequently factors such as poverty, racial/ethnic composition, and land use–in order to determine if these factors play a role in predicting where crime is more likely to happen.

The fundamental question we seek to answer is: how do the social and physical characteristics of locations relate to the levels of crime in those areas?

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