Andresen, MA and Malleson, N (2015) Intra-week spatial-temporal patterns of crime. Crime Science, 4 (12). ISSN 2193-7680
Abstract
Since its original publication, routine activity theory has proven most instructive for understanding temporal patterns in crime. The most prominent of the temporal crime patterns investigated is seasonality: crime (most often assault) increases during the summer months and decreases once routine activities are less often outside. Despite the rather widespread literature on the seasonality of crime, there is very little research investigating temporal patterns of crime at shorter time intervals such as within the week or even within the day. This paper contributes to this literature through a spatial-temporal analysis of crime patterns for different days of the week. It is found that temporal patterns are present for different days of the week (more crime on weekends, as would be expected) and there is a spatial component to that temporal change. Specifically, aside from robbery and sexual assault at the micro-spatial unit of analysis (street segments) the spatial patterns of crime changed. With regard to the spatial pattern changes, we found that assaults and theft from vehicle had their spatial patterns change in predictable ways on Saturdays: assaults increased in the bar district and theft from vehicles increased in the downtown and recreational car park areas.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 Andresen and Malleson. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited |
Keywords: | Temporal crime patterns; Intra-week crime patterns; Spatial criminology; Spatial point pattern test |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 14 Aug 2015 11:23 |
Last Modified: | 26 Feb 2019 09:19 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40163-015-0024-7 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SpringerOpen |
Identification Number: | 10.1186/s40163-015-0024-7 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:89055 |