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Modelling High-Intensity Crime Areas: Comparing Police Perceptions with Offence/Offender Data in Sheffield

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  • Massimo Craglia

    (Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, England)

  • Robert Haining

    (Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, England)

  • Paola Signoretta

    (School of Geography, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, England)

Abstract

High-intensity crime areas are areas where high levels of violent crime coexist with large numbers of offenders, thereby creating an area that may present significant policing problems. In an earlier paper, the authors analysed police perceptions of high-intensity crime areas, and now extend that earlier work by comparing the police's perception of where such areas are located with offence/offender data. They also report on the construction of predictive models that identify the area-specific attributes that explain the distribution of such areas. By focusing on the city of Sheffield, the authors draw on a wider range of local area data than was possible in the original paper, and also question how widespread such areas may be in Sheffield.

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  • Massimo Craglia & Robert Haining & Paola Signoretta, 2005. "Modelling High-Intensity Crime Areas: Comparing Police Perceptions with Offence/Offender Data in Sheffield," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 37(3), pages 503-524, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:37:y:2005:i:3:p:503-524
    DOI: 10.1068/a36143
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    1. Vânia Ceccato & Robert Haining & Tulio Kahn, 2007. "The Geography of Homicide in São Paulo, Brazil," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 39(7), pages 1632-1653, July.
    2. Vânia Ceccato, 2009. "Crime in a City in Transition: The Case of Tallinn, Estonia," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 46(8), pages 1611-1638, July.
    3. Robert Haining & Jane Law, 2007. "Combining police perceptions with police records of serious crime areas: a modelling approach," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 170(4), pages 1019-1034, October.
    4. Martin A Andresen, 2007. "Location Quotients, Ambient Populations, and the Spatial Analysis of Crime in Vancouver, Canada," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 39(10), pages 2423-2444, October.

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