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Built environment and violent crime: An environmental audit approach using Google Street View
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6658-9423
AbstractRecent studies empirically support the role of the built environment in inducing or hindering violent crime. Particularly, studies of the broken window theory have provided evidence that physical disorder is an environmental correlate of crime. This includes broken windows, vacant/abandoned housings, abandoned cars on street, graffiti, and decayed street lighting, among other things. Current studies are limited by the difficulty involved in collecting fine-scale quantitative environmental data. The conventional environmental audit approach, which aims to assess environmental features, is costly, time-consuming, and burdensome. In this study, we use Google Street View to study the relationship between violent crime and physical features of urban residential environment. More concretely, a Poisson regression model with spatial filtering is used to identify socio-economic correlates of violent crime. Parting from the hypothesis that omission of built environmental factors results in systematic residual pattern, we proceed to analyze the spatial filter to select sites for virtual environmental audits. A series of physical environmental factors are identified using contingency table analysis. The results provide both theoretical and practical implications for several theories of crime and crime prevention efforts.
HighlightsA Poisson regression with spatial filtering is used to identify socio-economic correlates of violent crime.Google Street View is used to study the relationship between residential built environment and violent crime.Findings provide insights to inform Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) initiatives.Google Street View can benefit future studies in cases of large-scale environmental assessment and dispersed study sites.
Built environment and violent crime: An environmental audit approach using Google Street View
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6658-9423
AbstractRecent studies empirically support the role of the built environment in inducing or hindering violent crime. Particularly, studies of the broken window theory have provided evidence that physical disorder is an environmental correlate of crime. This includes broken windows, vacant/abandoned housings, abandoned cars on street, graffiti, and decayed street lighting, among other things. Current studies are limited by the difficulty involved in collecting fine-scale quantitative environmental data. The conventional environmental audit approach, which aims to assess environmental features, is costly, time-consuming, and burdensome. In this study, we use Google Street View to study the relationship between violent crime and physical features of urban residential environment. More concretely, a Poisson regression model with spatial filtering is used to identify socio-economic correlates of violent crime. Parting from the hypothesis that omission of built environmental factors results in systematic residual pattern, we proceed to analyze the spatial filter to select sites for virtual environmental audits. A series of physical environmental factors are identified using contingency table analysis. The results provide both theoretical and practical implications for several theories of crime and crime prevention efforts.
HighlightsA Poisson regression with spatial filtering is used to identify socio-economic correlates of violent crime.Google Street View is used to study the relationship between residential built environment and violent crime.Findings provide insights to inform Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) initiatives.Google Street View can benefit future studies in cases of large-scale environmental assessment and dispersed study sites.
Built environment and violent crime: An environmental audit approach using Google Street View
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6658-9423
AbstractRecent studies empirically support the role of the built environment in inducing or hindering violent crime. Particularly, studies of the broken window theory have provided evidence that physical disorder is an environmental correlate of crime. This includes broken windows, vacant/abandoned housings, abandoned cars on street, graffiti, and decayed street lighting, among other things. Current studies are limited by the difficulty involved in collecting fine-scale quantitative environmental data. The conventional environmental audit approach, which aims to assess environmental features, is costly, time-consuming, and burdensome. In this study, we use Google Street View to study the relationship between violent crime and physical features of urban residential environment. More concretely, a Poisson regression model with spatial filtering is used to identify socio-economic correlates of violent crime. Parting from the hypothesis that omission of built environmental factors results in systematic residual pattern, we proceed to analyze the spatial filter to select sites for virtual environmental audits. A series of physical environmental factors are identified using contingency table analysis. The results provide both theoretical and practical implications for several theories of crime and crime prevention efforts.
HighlightsA Poisson regression with spatial filtering is used to identify socio-economic correlates of violent crime.Google Street View is used to study the relationship between residential built environment and violent crime.Findings provide insights to inform Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) initiatives.Google Street View can benefit future studies in cases of large-scale environmental assessment and dispersed study sites.
Built environment and violent crime: An environmental audit approach using Google Street View
He, Li (Autor:in) / Páez, Antonio (Autor:in) / Liu, Desheng (Autor:in)
Computers, Environments and Urban Systems ; 66 ; 83-95
06.08.2017
13 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Built environment and violent crime: An environmental audit approach using Google Street View
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