Too fine to be good? Issues of granularity, uniformity and error in spatial crime analysis

RG Ramos, BFA Silva, KC Clarke, M Prates - Journal of Quantitative …, 2021 - Springer
Objectives Crime counts are sensitive to granularity choice. There is an increasing interest in
analyzing crime at very fine granularities, such as street segments, with one of the reasons …

A spatial multi-criteria decision analysis framework to reveal vulnerabilities of areas to incidences of street robberies

AGF Rosa, CM de Miranda Mota, CJJ de Figueiredo - Applied geography, 2023 - Elsevier
Violence in public spaces is an aspect of society that demands analysis since this affects
social and economic well-being. On setting out to explore the incidence of violence in public …

Urban patterns and the geography of street robberies in the city of São Paulo, Brazil

RG Ramos, MB Nery, S Adorno - Applied Geography, 2024 - Elsevier
The geography of urban crime has often been associated with the city's geography. In this
study we analyze the geography of street robbery and its relation to the various urban …

Does base map size and imagery matter in sketch mapping?

N Sloan, B Doran, F Markham, K Pammer - Applied geography, 2016 - Elsevier
Sketch mapping has been an important data collection technique for geographers since the
1960s. Structured sketch mapping requires participants to draw spatial data onto a base …

Violence and local development in Fortaleza, Brazil: a spatial regression analysis

VH de Oliveira, CN de Medeiros… - Applied Spatial Analysis …, 2019 - Springer
Fortaleza is the fifth largest city of Brazil, and has become the most violent state capital in the
last years. In this paper, we investigate whether violent crime rates are associated with the …

Location-based fear of crime: A case study in Houston, Texas

F Luo, L Ren, JS Zhao - Criminal justice review, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Fear of crime has been a central issue in criminological research from the 1970s onward.
The salience of geographic location in shaping individuals' fear of crime has been well …

Violent events on the road: Risk perception of traffic-related and non traffic-related situations

LOV da Silva, MG de Camargo Braga - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2018 - Elsevier
This study aimed at identifying and comparing subjective risk perception regarding two
different violent situations in urban roads: traffic accidents (ie crashes) and robberies. A …

[PDF][PDF] Theoretical concepts of crime and practices in urban planning and design process for safe urban life

MA Haider, P Iamtrakul - … Journal of Building, Urban, Interior and …, 2018 - researchgate.net
Crime is a serious concern from the very beginning of human civilization and several
theoretical concepts are addressing the 'social crime'issue minimization crime without …

[HTML][HTML] 世纪以来西方犯罪地理研究述评

卓蓉蓉, 李峦峦, 余斌, 郑文升 - 人文地理, 2017 - xml-data.org
犯罪地理学主要研究犯罪现象的空间发生, 发展和分布规律. 从21 世纪以来SSCI, SCI
收录的地理学及相关学科期刊中整理500 多篇犯罪地理研究相关论文, 分析西方近年来犯罪地理 …

Mapping public order offenses: A study of the spatial distribution of perceived risk intensity in the city of Krakow, Poland

A Polończyk, A Leśniak - Cartography and Geographic Information …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The article presents a new quantitative approach to studying the feeling of safety and risk
perception and proposes a new method for determining the intensity of this phenomenon …