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- Crime concentration manifests in the probability distribution of crime across a city which can be described by a power law p(x) ∝ x−α (2) where the exponent α relates to the type of crime.
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May 26, 2017 · We examine concentration in two conditions: when all places are studied (prevalence), and when only places with at least one crime are studied (frequency). Results. We find that crime is concentrated at a relatively few places in both conditions. We also compared concentration for calls for services to reported crime incidents.
- YongJei Lee, John E. Eck, SooHyun O, Natalie N. Martinez
- 2017
May 26, 2017 · Crime is more concentrated at addresses than other units, including street segments. We compared crime concentration over time and found less concentration in 2000s compared to 1980s and 1990s.
Aug 11, 2017 · Our results confirmed that crime concentrates regardless of city and revealed that the level of concentration does not scale with city size. We found that the distribution of crime in a city can be approximated by a power-law distribution with exponent α that depends on the type of crime.
- Marcos Oliveira, Carmelo Bastos-Filho, Ronaldo Menezes
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0183110
- 2017
- PLoS One. 2017; 12(8): e0183110.
- Concentrations of Crime in Communities
- Why Might Concentrations of Crime Vary Across Communities?
- The Current Study
Interest in crime at places (or “criminology of place”) has seen rapidly growing interest since two seminal studies in the late 1980′s that found that ~ 3% of addresses account for over 50% of crimes in each of two cities (Sherman, Gartin, and Buerger 1989; Pierce, Spaar, and Briggs 1988). Since then, numerous studies have demonstrated similar patt...
If the level of concentration of crime does vary across communities, it begs the further question of why such variations occur and whether particular characteristics of communities lead to greater or lesser concentrations of crime. Put in simple terms, what are the features and processes that either lead to the isolation of crime on a small number ...
The current study examines the variation in the concentration of crime across the neighborhoods of Boston, MA. Studies of concentrations of crime often focus on particular types of crimes (e.g., robbery, Braga, Hureau, and Papachristos 2011; shootings, Loeffler and Flaxman 2018). In this first analysis of variations in concentrations of crime acros...
- Daniel T. O’Brien, Alexandra Ciomek, Alexandra Ciomek, Riley Tucker, Riley Tucker
- 2021
Dec 1, 2021 · We analyze the population–crime relationship in cities across 12 countries and assess the impact of per capita measurements on crime analyses, depending on the type of offense. In most countries, we find that theft increases superlinearly with population size, whereas burglary increases linearly.
- Marcos Oliveira, Marcos Oliveira
- M.A.Oliveira@exeter.ac.uk
- 2021
Mar 17, 2017 · The law of crime concentration at places suggests an analytical framework that can enhance our theoretical understanding of the crime problem and improve our capacity to prevent crime by focusing attention on persistent problem places.
Jul 1, 2021 · Overview. There is very strong evidence to suggest that crime and antisocial behaviour is not evenly distributed, but rather is highly concentrated. Some neighbourhoods, streets and people are much more likely to experience crime than others, and more regularly.
