Not ‘Islands, Entire of Themselves’: Exploring the Spatial Context of City-level Robbery Rates

The current study examines spatial dependence in robbery rates for a sample of 1,056 cities with 25,000 or more residents over the 2000–2003 period. Although commonly considered in some macro-level research, spatial processes have not been examined in relation to city-level variation in robbery. The...

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Main Author:	Deane, Glenn D. (Author)
Contributors:	Messner, Steven F. ; Stucky, Thomas D. ; McGeever, Kelly ; Kubrin, Charis Elizabeth
Format:	Electronic Article
Language:	English
Published:	2008
In:	Journal of quantitative criminology Year: 2008, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 363-380
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Keywords:	State-level covariates Spatial weights Spatial dependence City-level robbery rates