Spatial economics of crime: spatial design factors and the total social cost of crime against individuals and property in London
Year: 2009
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Combining two original pieces of research, the first on the spatial attributes of two types of crime \nand the second on the total social cost of the same crime, this paper proposes a methodology to \nevaluate the total socio-economic cost of spatial attributes related to robbery and burglary. Only \nrecently have studies started to focus on particular types of crime, and extract their built \nenvironment characteristics. Most of these studies focus on burglary and robbery as it is the type of \ncrime with the best record of location. Re-using the extensive amount of data from a case study \narea in London which demonstrates the link between street robbery and property burglary \noccurrences and spatial design factors, this paper sets out to evaluate burglary and robbery risk as \na cost in spatial planning and design.
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2151916866