RT Article
T1 The ‘exposed’ population, violent crime in public space and the night-time economy in Manchester, UK
JF European journal on criminal policy and research
VO 27
IS 3
SP 335
OP 352
A1 Haleem, Muhammad Salman
A2 Lee, Won Do
A2 Bannister, Jon
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/178802365X
AB The daily rhythms of the city, the ebb and flow of people undertaking routines activities, inform the spatial and temporal patterning of crime. Being able to capture citizen mobility and delineate a crime-specific population denominator is a vital prerequisite of the endeavour to both explain and address crime. This paper introduces the concept of an exposed population-at-risk, defined as the mix of residents and non-residents who may play an active role as an offender, victim or guardian in a specific crime type, present in a spatial unit at a given time. This definition is deployed to determine the exposed population-at-risk for violent crime, associated with the night-time economy, in public spaces. Through integrating census data with mobile phone data and utilising fine-grained temporal and spatial violent crime data, the paper demonstrates the value of deploying an exposed (over an ambient) population-at-risk denominator to determine violent crime in public space hotspots on Saturday nights in Greater Manchester (UK). In doing so, the paper illuminates that as violent crime in public space rises, over the course of a Saturday evening, the exposed population-at-risk falls, implying a shifting propensity of the exposed population-at-risk to perform active roles as offenders, victims and/or guardians. The paper concludes with a discussion of the theoretical and policy relevance of these findings.
K1 Exposed population-at-risk
K1 Mobile phone data
K1 Violent Crime
K1 Public Space
K1 Night-time economy
K1 Routine Activity Theory
DO 10.1007/s10610-020-09452-5