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Crime Attractors, Generators and Detractors

Land Use and Urban Crime Opportunities

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ID23334366
AuthorsJ Bryan Kinney (0000-0003-1864-9089), Patricia L Brantingham, Kathryn Wuschke (0000-0001-5520-0083), Michael Kirk (0000-0001-7465-905X), Michael G Kirk, P Jeffrey Brantingham (0000-0003-1079-0053)
Year2008
Volume34
Issue1
Pages62-74
Publication date2008-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueBuilt Environment (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7960
PublisherAlexandrine Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2148/benv.34.1.62
OpenAlexW2020763685
LanguageEN
Citations received135
References cited20

The built environment impacts on the patterns of crime in many different ways. The distribution and clustering of different land uses is thought, on theoretical grounds, to play an important role in where and when crimes occur. This study analysed the patterns of assault and motor vehicle theft in relation to the distribution of land uses across more than 60,000 separate parcels of land in a large British Columbia city. Specific land-use types that concentrate routine human activities in time and space are found to act as major crime generators and attractors. Attention to the distribution of these land-use types across the urban mosaic can substantially reduce the volume of crime associated with design decisions.

Attractor · Civil engineering · Criminology · Data mining · Distribution (mathematics) · Environmental planning · Geography · Land use · Relation (database) · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Engineering · Mathematics

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