RT Article
T1 The Effect of Maximum Daily Temperature on Outdoor Violence
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 69
IS 6/7
SP 1161
OP 1182
A1 Cruz, Erik
A2 D'Alessio, Stewart J.
A2 Stolzenberg, Lisa
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1869115260
AB Although temperature aggression theory maintains that a high temperature engenders more aggressive behavior by irritating individuals, routine activity theory asserts that violent crime increases as temperature rises because of enhanced interaction among the public in outdoor settings. We investigate the effect of maximum daily temperature on whether crime victims are physically injured during the commission of an outdoor criminal offense in Cleveland, Ohio. We focus on violent crimes occurring outdoors because most U.S. households have central air-conditioning or room air conditioners. Two autoregressive integrative moving average (ARIMA) analyses provide support for routine activity theory because although maximum daily temperature has a strong positive effect on the frequency of violent crimes occurring outdoors, it has little influence on the physical injury of crime victims.
K1 Routine Activity Theory
K1 temperature aggression theory
K1 physical injury
K1 outdoor violent crime
K1 Time-series analysis
DO 10.1177/0011128720926119