RT Article
T1 Professional sports and crime: do professional hockey games increase city-level crime rates?
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 67
IS 12
SP 2069
OP 2087
A1 Block, Kristina
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1782115781
AB Previous research has found that sports games increase certain crimes including theft and vandalism, but the relationship between sports and other offenses such as motor vehicle theft, robbery, and assaults is mixed. Using regular season National Hockey League (NHL) game data and city-level, incident-level crime data from four large U.S. cities, this paper estimates if professional ice hockey games played at home is associated with increases in property crimes, alcohol-related crimes, and assaults during and right after games the over course of four NHL seasons. Results show that NHL games lead to small but significant increases in property crimes and assaults. There is no significant effect for alcohol-related crimes. Implications and suggestions for future work are discussed.
K1 Sports
K1 Crime
K1 NHL
K1 Routine Activities Theory
DO 10.1177/00111287211010491