Assessing the impacts of various street-level characteristics on the burden of urban burglary in Kaduna, Nigeria
Assessing the impacts of various street-level characteristics on the burden of urban burglary in Kaduna, Nigeria
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DOI：
10.1016/j.apgeog.2019.102126
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发表时间：
2020-01-01
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4.9
通讯作者：
Cheshire, James A.
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作者：
Musah, Anwar;Umar, Faisal;Cheshire, James A.
有证据表明，在城市环境中犯下的罪行在地理上集中在一系列尺度上，城市空间内犯罪率的变化在很大程度上取决于自然环境以及犯罪发生的情况。然而，这些断言通常是从环境犯罪学研究中得出的，这些研究集中在欧美城市和西方知识分子的观点上。我们试图超越这些，专注于撒哈拉以南非洲的一个二线城市（尼日利亚的卡杜纳），这是一个很少有文献存在的背景。因此，本文首次探讨了卡杜纳一系列街道特征与住宅入室盗窃风险之间的关系。它描述了一种在尼日利亚进行家庭犯罪受害调查的方法，然后将信息汇总到街道一级，以进行基于人口的生态研究。它整合了街道网络分析和统计建模技术，以便为可能增加入室盗窃风险的因素提供新的估计，例如街道可达性指标（例如连通性，中间性和亲密性），路段长度，社会经济地位和商业活动。最后，文章提供了对撒哈拉以南非洲背景下的调查结果的合理性和含义的讨论。
Evidence suggests that crimes committed in urban environments are geographically concentrated across a range of scales, and that the variation in rates of crime within an urban space is significantly dependent on the physical environment as well as the situation in which the crime takes place. However, these assertions are typically drawn from environmental criminological studies that have focussed on Euro-American cities and western intellectual perspectives. We seek to move beyond these by focussing on a second-tier city in sub-Saharan Africa (Kaduna, Nigeria), a context for which very little literature exists. This paper therefore examines the association between a range of street characteristics and the risk of residential burglary in Kaduna for the first time. It describes a methodology for conducting a household crime victimisation survey in Nigeria, and then aggregating the information to a street-level to perform a population-based ecological study. It integrates street network analysis and statistical modelling techniques in order to provide novel estimates for factors that may increase the risk of burglary such as street accessibility metrics (e.g. connectivity, betweenness and closeness centrality), segment length, socioeconomic status and business activities. Finally, the article provides a discussion on the plausibility and implication of findings within the sub-Saharan African context.