Reducing Bias in Estimates for the Law of Crime Concentration

The law of crime concentration states that half of the cumulative crime in a city will occur within approximately 4% of the city's geography. The law is demonstrated by counting the number of incidents in each of N spatial areas (street segments or grid cells) and then computing a parameter bas...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mohler, George (Author)
Contributors: Brantingham, P. Jeffrey 1970- ; Carter, Jeremy G. 1982- ; Short, Martin B.
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2019, Volume: 35, Issue: 4, Pages: 747-765
Online Access: Presumably Free Access
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Keywords:
Poisson process
Negative binomial
Crime concentration
Crime hotspot
Gini index
CrimCrime concentration