Criminal Neighbourhoods: Does the Density of Prior Offenders in an Area Encourage others to Commit Crime?
Criminal Neighbourhoods: Does the Density of Prior Offenders in an Area Encourage others to Commit Crime?
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10.1068/a140180p
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2014-10
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M. Livingston;G. Galster;A. Kearns;J. Bannister
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作者：
M. Livingston;G. Galster;A. Kearns;J. Bannister
使用犯罪数据在一段时间内的十年格拉斯哥，本文探讨了以前的罪犯在一个街区的密度是否有影响的倾向，其他人（重新）开始犯罪。该研究表明，本季度一个社区的“新活跃”罪犯人数与前两年暴力和财产犯罪的前科犯密度呈正相关。对于新近实施的财产犯罪者，只有在先前犯罪者的数量超过中位数时，与现行先前犯罪者的关系才是明显的。本文假设，intrneighbourhood社会机制可能在工作中创造这些影响。结果表明，政策集中在特定的街区的罪犯可能会增加新的活跃的罪犯的数量，并指出这些影响发生的阈值的证据。
Using crime data over a period of a decade for Glasgow, this paper explores whether the density of prior offenders in a neighbourhoods has an influence on the propensity of others to (re)commence offending. The study shows that the number of ‘newly active’ offenders in a neighbourhood in the current quarter is positively associated with the density of prior offenders for both violent and property crime from the previous two years. In the case of newly active property offenders, the relationship with active prior offenders is apparent only when prior offender counts exceed the median. The paper postulates that intraneighbourhood social mechanisms may be at work to create these effects. The results suggest that policies which concentrate offenders in particular neighbourhoods may increase the number of newly active offenders, and point to evidence of a threshold at which these effects take place.