How Places Influence Crime: The Impact of Surrounding Areas on Neighbourhood Burglary Rates in a British City. (April 2014)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- How Places Influence Crime: The Impact of Surrounding Areas on Neighbourhood Burglary Rates in a British City. (April 2014)
- Main Title:
- How Places Influence Crime: The Impact of Surrounding Areas on Neighbourhood Burglary Rates in a British City
- Authors:
- Hirschfield, Alex
Birkin, Mark
Brunsdon, Chris
Malleson, Nicolas
Newton, Andrew - Abstract:
- Burglary prevalence within neighbourhoods is well understood but the risk from bordering areas is under-theorised and under-researched. If it were possible to fix a neighbourhood's location but substitute its surrounding areas, one might expect to see some influence on its crime rate. However, by treating surrounding areas as independent observations, ecological studies assume that identical neighbourhoods with markedly different surroundings are equivalent. If not, knowing the impact of different peripheries would have significance for crime prevention, land use planning and other policy domains. This paper tests whether knowledge of the demographic make-up of surrounding areas can improve on the prediction of a neighbourhood's burglary rate based solely on its internal socio-demographics. Results identify significant between-area effects with certain types of periphery exerting stronger influences than others. The advantages and drawbacks of the spatial error and predictor lag model used in the analysis are discussed and areas for further research defined.
- Is Part Of:
- Urban studies. Volume 51:Number 5(2014:Apr.)
- Journal:
- Urban studies
- Issue:
- Volume 51:Number 5(2014:Apr.)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 51, Issue 5 (2014)
- Year:
- 2014
- Volume:
- 51
- Issue:
- 5
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2014-0051-0005-0000
- Page Start:
- 1057
- Page End:
- 1072
- Publication Date:
- 2014-04
- Subjects:
- Cities and towns -- Periodicals
City planning -- Periodicals
307.1216 - Journal URLs:
- http://usj.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://www.uk.sagepub.com ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/0042098013492232 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0042-0980
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