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Property crime specialization in Detroit, Michigan

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  • Felson, Marcus
  • Xu, Yanqing
  • Jiang, Shanhe

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Objectives: This paper examines whether different parts of a city “specialize” in different types of property crime. Data: The current paper combines police data from 2011 through 2015 to examine property crime specialization among Detroit's 879 block groups. Crime types include residential burglaries, non-residential burglaries, thefts from buildings, thefts from vehicles, and thefts of vehicles. Results: Only 22 block groups are hot spots for all five property crime types. Some 167 block groups are hot spots for only one of the five crime types. Conclusions: A hot spot for one type of property crime is not necessarily a hot spot for another. We discuss whether a “law of specialization” applies more generally to the urban analysis of crime.

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  • Felson, Marcus & Xu, Yanqing & Jiang, Shanhe, 2022. "Property crime specialization in Detroit, Michigan," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jcjust:v:82:y:2022:i:c:s0047235222000733
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2022.101953
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