Spatial Patterns of Larceny and Aggravated Assault in Miami–Dade County, 2007–2015
| Autor: | Alexander Warner, Christopher Cowen, Ryan J. Bunting, Eric R. Louderback, Shouraseni Sen Roy, Oliver Yang Chang, Staci Langston, Richard Hankins, Xiaxia Yang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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050402 sociology
Geospatial analysis 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Ethnic group Law enforcement Miami Census computer.software_genre Crime mapping Aggravated assault Geography 0504 sociology 050501 criminology Spatial ecology Cartography computer 0505 law Earth-Surface Processes |
| Zdroj: | The Professional Geographer. 70:34-46 |
| ISSN: | 1467-9272 0033-0124 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00330124.2017.1310622 |
| Popis: | The combination of crime mapping and geospatial analysis methods has enabled law enforcement agencies to develop more proactive methods of targeting crime-prone neighborhoods based on spatial patterns, such as hot spots and spatial proximity to specific points of interest. In this article, we investigate the spatial and temporal patterns of the neighborhood crimes of aggravated assault and larceny in 297 census tracts in Miami–Dade County from 2007 to 2015. We use emerging hot spot analysis (EHSA) to identify the spatial patterns of emerging, persistent, continuous, and sporadic hot spots. In addition, we use geographically weighted regression to analyze the spatial clustering effects of sociodemographic variables, poverty rate, median age, and ethnic diversity. The hot spots for larceny are much more diffused than those for aggravated assaults, which exhibit clustering in the north over Liberty City and Miami Gardens and in the south near Homestead, and the ethnic heterogeneity index has a moderate and p... |
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