ABSTRACT

Research has shown that crime is concentrated at a small number of micro-places. This research has found that these spatial patterns are generalisable across different urban settings and are relatively stable over time. Despite this, little is known about the explanatory factors of crime at the micro-spatial scale. Using police incident data and land-use information obtained from the Vancouver Open-Data catalogue, zero-inflated negative binomial models are used to explain the spatial patterns of various types of property crimes at the street segment level. The results demonstrate that aspects of micro-places (multi-unit housing, restaurants (with and without liquor), and retail outlets) have a significant positive impact on these crime types at the micro-spatial level. Depending on the crime type, the strength of the relationship varies in magnitude and level of significance.

摘要

研究表明，犯罪集中在少数微观场所。这项研究发现，这些空间模式可以在不同的城市环境中推广，并且随着时间的推移相对稳定。尽管如此，人们对微观空间尺度上犯罪的解释因素知之甚少。使用从温哥华开放数据目录中获得的警察事件数据和土地使用信息，使用零膨胀负二项式模型来解释街段级别各种类型的财产犯罪的空间模式。结果表明，微场所（多单元住宅、餐馆（有酒和无酒）和零售店）的各个方面在微空间层面对这些犯罪类型有显着的积极影响。根据犯罪类型，