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Visualizing the directional bias in property crime incidents for five Canadian municipalities
Author(s) -
Frank Richard,
Andresen Martin A.,
Brantingham Patricia L.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the canadian geographer / le géographe canadien
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.35
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1541-0064
pISSN - 0008-3658
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2012.00450.x
Subject(s) - property (philosophy) , visualization , crime analysis , criminology , criminal behavior , data science , geography , political science , computer science , computer security , sociology , epistemology , artificial intelligence , philosophy
There are three interconnected and fundamental elements that define the spatiality of crime: places, distances, and directions. Over the past 180 years, research has flourished for the first two fundamental elements with relatively little research on directionality. In this article, we develop a visualization technique allowing for the display of the directional bias for a large number of offenders that aids in subsequent analysis. We show that a directional bias in criminal activity is present overall, but is not monolithic. Consequently, urban form and understanding place play a strong role in criminal directional biases for moving through our environments.