RT Article
T1 The Role of Neighborhoods in the Age of Crime Hot Spots: A Multi-Level Theory of the Spatial Distribution of Robbery in Chicago
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 70
IS 11
SP 2855
OP 2881
A1 Schnell, Cory
A2 DeWitt, Samuel E.
A2 Spencer, M. Dylan
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1900828197
AB This study observes the spatial distribution of robbery using a multi-level framework to further understand the unique contribution of both micro-places and neighborhoods to the spatial variability of crime patterns. Mixed-effects regression models were estimated to determine if the influence of spatial interdependence measured with a spatial lag variable at street segments had a random effect between Chicago’s community areas. The variance parameters guided an exploratory spatial data analysis which revealed clusters of robbery patterns which were larger than crime hot spots and often nested within neighborhoods. We found there is an important distinction between places in Chicago where the spatial transmissibility of robberies is most acutely experienced across entire neighborhoods or within the immediate proximity of certain micro-places.
K1 Crime Mapping
K1 Neighborhoods
K1 micro-places
K1 multi-level models
K1 Crime and place
DO 10.1177/00111287221140836