RT Article
T1 Temporal Variations in Calls for Police Service During COVID-19: Evidence From China
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 68
IS 8
SP 1183
OP 1206
A1 Dai, Mengliang
A2 Xia, Yiwei
A2 Han, Rongxu
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1839616229
AB This study examined the temporal variations in calls for service before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in China using a sample of 37,124 police service calls made from January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2020 to a 110 command center in a county-level city in Hubei Province. There was a significant temporal effect, and the calls for service peaked between 08:00 and 19:59 throughout the entire period. The busiest hours of the day for calls for police service were between 12:00 and 19:59, and the calls peaked between 12:00 and 15:59 during the lockdown. The distribution of calls by weekday showed no significant pattern, with the exception of traffic-related calls. The results are discussed from the perspective of routine activity theory.
K1 Covid-19
K1 China
K1 calls for police service
K1 Lockdown
K1 temporal variation
DO 10.1177/00111287221074942