Measuring the Distribution of Crime and Its Concentration

Generally speaking, crime is, fortunately, a rare event. As far as modelling is concerned, this sparsity of data means that traditional measures to quantify concentration are not appropriate when applied to crime suffered by a population. Our objective is to develop a new technique to measure the co...

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Authors: Prieto Curiel, Rafael (Author) ; Bishop, Steven Richard (Author) ; Collignon Delmar, Sofía (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2018, Volume: 34, Issue: 3, Pages: 775-803
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Keywords:
Gini coefficient
Lorenz curve
Crime immunity
Chronic victimisation
Victimisation profile
Mixture model
Crime concentration
Crime concentration
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Summary:Generally speaking, crime is, fortunately, a rare event. As far as modelling is concerned, this sparsity of data means that traditional measures to quantify concentration are not appropriate when applied to crime suffered by a population. Our objective is to develop a new technique to measure the concentration of crime which takes into account its low frequency of occurrence and its high degree of concentration in such a way that this measure is comparable over time and over different populations.
ISSN:1573-7799
DOI:10.1007/s10940-017-9354-9