While prior criminological scholarship has explored how crime often tends to occur near businesses, a theory of Jane Jacobs is that certain types of businesses can create more cohesion in a neighborhood. This increased cohesion would presumably reduce the incidence of crime on a street. In particular, we used data in Southern California to explore…Continue Reading Lab publication on local and non-local businesses and crime
Streets may operate as boundaries across the spatial landscape, and in this study we view streets as potential boundaries within the built environment. We use a study of Southern California neighborhoods to show that features on the opposite side of the street–including social features such as race/ethnicity and income, as well as physical features such…Continue Reading Lab publication on Both Sides of the Street
Criminology researchers study the explanations of crime at different geographic scales, from counties down to street blocks. Whereas many studies have asked why certain cities or counties have more crime than others, a limitation of this research is that it ignores what is going on in neighborhoods or micro locations within these cities. We propose…Continue Reading Lab publication on imputing data for city-level crime studies
This simulation study was initially presented as part of the “People, Places, and Context: Advances in Criminological Theory” Symposium co-hosted by ILSSC in April 2019. The study presents a simulation of typical spatial movement of offenders and targets to assess what standard ecological studies of crime are telling us. Studies typically do not account for…Continue Reading Lab publication on simulating spatial crime patterns
This study explores how much crime occurs near schools, and whether this differs based on the type of school. Whereas prior research often just focuses on the presence of schools to assess their impact on neighborhood crime. we measure two key school characteristics that might affect local juvenile crime. We assess whether schools with more…Continue Reading Lab publication on schools and crime