RT Article
T1 Is Gang Violent Crime More Contagious than Non-Gang Violent Crime?
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 37
IS 4
SP 953
OP 977
A1 Brantingham, P. Jeffrey
A2 Yuan, Baichuan
A2 Herz, Denise
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1776231317
AB Objectives Gangs are thought to enhance participation in violence. It is expected then that gang-related violent crimes trigger additional crimes in a contagious manner, above and beyond what is typical for non-gang violent crime. Methods This paper uses a multivariate self-exciting point process model to estimate the extent of contagious spread of violent crime for both gang-related and non-gang aggravated assaults and homicides in recent data from Los Angeles. The degree of contagious cross-triggering between gang-related and non-gang violent crime is also estimated. Results Gang-related violence triggers twice as many offspring events as non-gang violence and there is little or no cross-triggering. Gang-related offspring events are significantly more lethal than non-gang offspring events, but no more lethal than non-contagious background gang crimes. Conclusions Contagious spread of gang-related violent crime is different from contagion in non-gang violence. The results support crime prevention policies that target the disruption of gang retaliations.
K1 Violence Prevention
K1 Point process
K1 Gangs
K1 Assault
K1 Homicide
DO 10.1007/s10940-020-09479-1