Multiresolution Analyses of Neighborhood Correlates of Crime: Smaller Is Not Better.

ABSTRACT: Population analyses of the correlates of neighborhood crime implicitly assume that a single spatial unit can be used to assess neighborhood effects. However, no single spatial unit may be suitable for analyses of the many social determinants of crime. Instead, effects may appear at multiple spatial resolutions, with some determinants acting broadly, others locally, and still others as some function of both global and local conditions. We provide a multiresolution spatial analysis that simultaneously examines US Census block, block group, and tract effects of alcohol outlets and drug markets on violent crimes in Oakland, California, incorporating spatial lag effects at the 2 smaller spatial resolutions. Using call data from the Oakland Police Department from 2010-2015, we examine associatio

SUBMITTER: Mair C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7784528 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature