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Context and Spatial Nuance Inside a Neighborhood's Drug Hotspot: Implications for the Crime–Health Nexus

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  • Andrew Curtis
  • Jacqueline W. Curtis
  • Lauren C. Porter
  • Eric Jefferis
  • Eric Shook

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New geographic approaches are required to tease apart the underlying sociospatial complexity of neighborhood decline to target appropriate interventions. Typically maps of crime hotspots are used with relatively little attention being paid to geographic context. This article helps further this discourse using a topical study of a neighborhood drug microspace, a phrase we use to include the various stages of production, selling, acquiring, and taking, to show how context matters. We overlay an exploratory data analysis of three cohort spatial video geonarratives (SVGs) to contextualize the traditional crime rate hotspot maps. Using two local area analyses of police, community, and ex-offender SVGs and then comparing these with police call for service data, we identify spaces of commonality and difference across data types. In the Discussion, we change the scale to consider revealed microspaces and the interaction of both “good” and “bad” places. We enrich the previous analysis with a mapped spatial video assessment of the built environment and then return to the narrative to extract additional detail around a crime-associated corner store next to a community center. Our findings suggest that researchers should reevaluate how to enrich typical hotspot approaches with more on-the-ground context.

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  • Andrew Curtis & Jacqueline W. Curtis & Lauren C. Porter & Eric Jefferis & Eric Shook, 2016. "Context and Spatial Nuance Inside a Neighborhood's Drug Hotspot: Implications for the Crime–Health Nexus," Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 106(4), pages 819-836, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:raagxx:v:106:y:2016:i:4:p:819-836
    DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2016.1164582
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    1. Jayakrishnan Ajayakumar & Andrew Curtis & Steve Smith & Jacqueline Curtis, 2019. "The Use of Geonarratives to Add Context to Fine Scale Geospatial Research," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(3), pages 1-15, February.
    2. Md Amiruzzaman & Andrew Curtis & Ye Zhao & Suphanut Jamonnak & Xinyue Ye, 2021. "Classifying crime places by neighborhood visual appearance and police geonarratives: a machine learning approach," Journal of Computational Social Science, Springer, vol. 4(2), pages 813-837, November.
    3. Andrew Curtis & Sandra Bempah & Jayakrishnan Ajayakumar & Dania Mofleh & Lorriane Odhiambo, 2018. "Spatial Video Health Risk Mapping in Informal Settlements: Correcting GPS Error," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(1), pages 1-13, December.
    4. Xinyue Ye & Xingjian Liu, 2018. "Integrating social networks and spatial analyses of the built environment," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 45(3), pages 395-399, May.

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