Association between property investments and crime on commercial and residential streets: Implications for maximizing public safety benefits.

ABSTRACT: Physical property investments enhance public safety in communities while alleviating the need for criminal justice system responses. Policy makers and local government officials must allocate scare resources for community and economic development activities. Understanding where physical property investments have the greatest crime reducing benefits can inform decision making to maximize economic, safety, and health outcomes. This study uses Spatial Durbin models with street segment and census tract by year fixed effects to examine the impact of physical property investments on changes in property and violent crime over an 11-year period (2008-2018) in six large U.S. cities. The units of analysis are commercial and residential street segments. Street segments are classified into low, medium

SUBMITTER: Walter RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10757037 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature