RT Article
T1 Where's The Crime? Exploring Divergences Between Call Data and Perceptions of Local Crime
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 60
IS 2
SP 444
OP 467
A1 Porter, Lauren C.
A2 Curtis, Andrew
A2 Jefferis, Eric
A2 Mitchell, Susanne
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1692893734
AB Scholars typically use calls to the police to study crime patterning; however, crime reporting may be systematic across space. Using spatial video and geonarrative methodology, we investigate the overlap between perceived crime hot spots among 35 neighbourhood insiders (police officers, ex-offenders and residents) and hot spots gleaned from call data. In general, perceptual hot spots diverge from call data, but in particular, a corner store emerges as a perceptual hot spot across all groups, but not in call data. We use our data to explore the microgeographic dynamics of this ‘hidden hot spot'. We find that the corner store is relatively isolated, with few occupied residences around it and participants avoiding it. In addition, our geonarratives suggest that the store lacks adequate guardianship. We argue that mixed methodological approaches such as these are useful for understanding discrepancies between measures as well as the situational and environmental dynamics of problem places.
K1 Crime and place
K1 Hot spots
K1 Mixed methods
DO 10.1093/bjc/azz059