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Estimating the effects of crime maps on house prices using an (Un)natural experiment: A study protocol [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Street-level crime maps are publicly available online in England and Wales. However, there was initial resistance to the publication of such fine-grained crime statistics, which can lower house prices and increase insurance premiums in high crime ...
Meng Le Zhang +2 more
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Inheriting the Grade: HOLC “Redlining” Maps and Contemporary Neighborhood Crime
Socius, 2023 Communities and crime research often invokes historical housing policies to explain vast disparities in crime. However, these assertions are rarely tested. Using lending security maps from the government-sponsored Home Owner’s Loan Corporation (HOLC), we
Christopher J. Lyons +2 more
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020 This study evaluates fear of crime perception and official crime statistics in a spatial context, by applying digital sketch maps and statistical GIS methods.
Ákos Jakobi, Andrea Pődör
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“Missing the Community for the Dots”: Newspaper Crime Maps, Territorial Stigma and Visual Criminology [PDF]
Critical Criminology, 2023 By drawing on research on territorial stigmatization, critical cartography, and visual criminology, this article develops a critical literacy of crime maps to scrutinize their ability to function as adequate representations of crime.
Tilman Schwarze, Schwarze Tilman
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Sustainability, 2023 Geographical mapping has revolutionized data analysis with the help of analytical tools in the fields of social and economic studies, whereby representing statistical research variables of interest as geographic characteristics presents visual insights ...
Usman Ghani +2 more
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User-Centered Design for Interactive Maps: A Case Study in Crime Analysis
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2015 In this paper, we address the topic of user-centered design (UCD) for cartography, GIScience, and visual analytics. Interactive maps are ubiquitous in modern society, yet they often fail to “work” as they could or should.
Robert E. Roth +2 more
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“Hot street” of crime detection in London borough and lockdown impacts
Geo-spatial Information Science, 2023 In recent years, the police intervention strategy “Hot spots policing” has been effective in combating crimes. However, as cities are under the intense pressure of increasing crime and scarce police resources, police patrols are expected to target more ...
Yuying Wu, Yijing Li
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019 This study analyzes the perception of safety among residents of Main South neighborhood in Worcester, MA, USA and compares it to reported crimes. This neighborhood is the focus of a community-based crime reduction project funded by the Bureau of Justice ...
Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger +1 more
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Young women’s site-specific fear of crime within urban public spaces in Seoul
Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2022 Many studies revealed that vegetation in parks evokes fear of crime for women in a certain environmental context, and it significantly inhibits the restorative qualities of urban green spaces.
Young Hee Min, Gidong Byun, Mikyoung Ha
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Asian Journal of Criminology, 2011 Recent years have witnessed several major crimes against children both inside, and in the vicinity of, schools in Japan. These criminal incidents have heightened parental and community concerns regarding the safety of children in school.
Nobuo Komiya
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