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Metropolitan Crime Patterns
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The article was published on 1986-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 59 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Metropolitan area.read more
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Fear of crime: A review of the literature.
TL;DR: The literature on fear of crime has grown rapidly in the last three decades as discussed by the authors, and the reasons for this growth and attempts to put some structure on the work to date are discussed and alternative approaches suggested.
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Crime Places in Crime Theory
TL;DR: A review of the 14 original articles in this volume can be found in this paper, where five areas of research help us understand the importance of places: crime concentration about particular facilities (e.g., bars); the high concentration of crime at some addresses and the absence of crime in others; the preventive effects of various place features; the mobility of offenders; and studies of how offenders select targets.
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Neighborhood and Crime: The Structural Determinants of Personal Victimization:
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of neighborhood characteristics on rates of personal criminal victimization (rape, robbery, assault, and larceny) were examined using the National Crime Survey (NCS) for the years 1973-1975.
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Development, crime and punishment: accounting for the international differences in crime rates
TL;DR: In this article, the determinants of the heterogeneity in crime rates across countries, focusing on reporting rates and development, were analyzed by comparing data from victimization surveys to official records.
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Is it Important to Examine Crime Trends at a Local ''Micro'' Level?: A Longitudinal Analysis of Street to Street Variability in Crime Trajectories
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined both temporal and spatial variation in crime across street blocks in the city of Seattle Washington, and established whether streets having the same temporal trajectory are collocated spatially or whether there is street to street variation in the temporal patterns of crime.