Ambient population and surveillance cameras: The guardianship role in street robbers' crime location choice
Ambient population and surveillance cameras: The guardianship role in street robbers' crime location choice
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周围人口与监控摄像头：街头劫匪犯罪地点选择中的监护作用
DOI：
10.1016/j.cities.2021.103223
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发表时间：
2021-04-22
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影响因子：
6.7
通讯作者：
He, Li
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作者：
Long, Dongping;Liu, Lin;He, Li
了解罪犯如何选择犯罪地点是一个经典的犯罪学主题。然而，以往关于犯罪人犯罪地点选择的研究并未考虑周围人口和监控摄像头对街头抢劫的影响。本研究在文献研究的基础上，整合周边人口与监控摄影机资料，从监护人的观点出发。离散空间选择模型被用来测试他们的监护作用对街头抢劫犯的犯罪地点选择的影响，占可达性和接近性，犯罪吸引和发电机，和社会解体。研究结果表明，周围人群和监控摄像头对街头抢劫犯的作案地点选择具有显著的阻碍作用，在街头抢劫犯的犯罪活动中起着监护作用。特别是，我们发现周围人群的监护作用大于监控摄像头。此外，包括周围的人口和监控摄像头增加了模型的适应性，这强调了这两个因素对街头抢劫犯选择抢劫地点的监护作用。这些发现可能对周围人群的作用和部署监控摄像头以减少犯罪具有重要意义。
Understanding how offenders choose a crime location is a classic criminological topic. However, previous research on offenders' crime location choice did not consider the impacts of ambient population and surveillance cameras on street robbery. Based on the literature, this study integrates ambient population and surveillance cameras data, from the perspective of guardianship. The discrete spatial choice modeling is used to test the impact of their guardianship role on street robbers' crime location choice, accounting for accessibility and proximity, crime attractors and generators, and social disorganization. The results demonstrate that ambient population and surveillance cameras have a significant hindering impact on street robbers' crime location choice, and they play a guardianship role in street robbers' criminal activities. In particular, we find that the guardianship effect of ambient population is greater than that of surveillance cameras. Further, the inclusion of ambient population and surveillance cameras increases the fitness of the model, which underscores the guardianship role of these two factors on street robbers' choice of location on committing a robbery. These findings can have important implications for the role of the ambient population and the deployment of surveillance cameras for crime reduction.