RT Article
T1 Testing the Law of Crime Concentration in Georgetown, Guyana
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 70
IS 11
SP 3127
OP 3152
A1 Cummings, Anthony R.
A2 Arredondo, Celina
A2 Piquero, Alex R. 1970-
A2 Wehenkel, Aaran
A2 Markandey, Nakul
A2 Das, Hannah
A2 Tiemann, Brittany L.
A2 Lee, Kevin G.
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1900828294
AB A consistent finding in criminology is that crime occurs and is concentrated at micro places within cities. To date, most efforts that revealed crime at micro places were completed for developed world settings. Here we draw on newspaper data to examine whether the law of crime concentration is relevant to the developing world city of Georgetown, Guyana. Our analysis showed that robberies and murders were concentrated on 2.77% and 1.96% of the city’s streets. Group-based trajectory analysis revealed an unstable relationship between street segments and crime occurrence, but two areas of Georgetown emerged as centers for robberies and murders. Despite Georgetown’s low population density relative to other Latin American cities, crime is concentrated to a few streets.
K1 Guyana
K1 street-level crime
K1 micro-places
K1 group-based trajectory
DO 10.1177/00111287221134491