RT Article
T1 Is Gun Violence Contagious? A Spatiotemporal Test
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 34
IS 4
SP 999
OP 1017
A1 Loeffler, Charles E.
A2 Flaxman, Seth
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1690917571
AB Existing theories of gun violence predict stable spatial concentrations and contagious diffusion of gun violence into surrounding areas. Recent empirical studies have reported confirmatory evidence of such spatiotemporal diffusion of gun violence. However, existing space/time interaction tests cannot readily distinguish spatiotemporal clustering from spatiotemporal diffusion. This leaves as an open question whether gun violence actually is contagious or merely clusters in space and time. Compounding this problem, gun violence is subject to considerable measurement error with many nonfatal shootings going unreported to police.
K1 Spatiotemporal methods
K1 Contagion
K1 gun violence
K1 Gun violence
DO 10.1007/s10940-017-9363-8