Journal article
Seasonality and Crime in Orlando Neighbourhoods
British journal of criminology, Vol.62(1), pp.124-144
01/01/2022
DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azab048
Abstract
The current study examines seasonality by modelling crime in small spatial units while accounting for numerous land uses (e.g. hotel, store, school and industrial) and sociodemographic characteristics. We estimate logistic regression models that predict the probability of a crime occurring in our sample of blocks in Orlando, FL over the 52 weeks of the year (i.e. block-weeks). In addition, we examined interaction terms between each land use measure and a set of measures for weeks of the year to assess seasonal effects on neighbourhood crime. Our findings reveal a (nonlinear) seasonal effect in which the risk of neighborhood crime peaks during the summer weeks and the effect of certain land uses systematically varies across weeks of the year.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Seasonality and Crime in Orlando Neighbourhoods
- Creators
- Young-An Kim - Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal JusticeJames C. Wo - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- British journal of criminology, Vol.62(1), pp.124-144
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ Press
- DOI
- 10.1093/bjc/azab048
- ISSN
- 0007-0955
- eISSN
- 1464-3529
- Number of pages
- 21
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2022
- Academic Unit
- Public Policy Center (Archive); Sociology and Criminology; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984282617602771
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