Property Crimes and Violence in United States: An Analysis of the Influence of Population Density
[2023-09-16 12:54:56]
The role of population density in the occurrence and oppression of crime has been debating for decades. A classic claim is that high density provides an opportunity for property crime as it is a substitute for the distribution of private property, the majority of which provide attractive targets for thieves. On the other hand, natural surveillance in a densely populated area has the effect of suppressing violent crime when witnesses are more and when the incident is more likely to be reported to the police. In this analysis, property crime and violent crime were selected from over 100,000 crime databases reported in Baltimore County, Maryland, USA in 2000. Calculate the density of population, property, and violent crime in urban areas. Blocks with a higher population density than the average of all blocks are kept for further consideration. According to the analysis, property crime and violent crime are in a moderate relationship with population density, and these crimes primarily affect the same obstacle. In conclusion, at the geographical block level, there is no evidence of the difference between property-based crime and violent crime based on population density.
Property crime and density are positively correlated, but the inverse relationship of violence is not so. In general, the block-level reality of Baltimore County tends to happen (or not) together with all 10 of the crimes considered here, either for property or for individuals . If the monitoring effect is related to higher population density, the level of attenuation leading to violent crime is not clear here. The theory of traditional criminal acts (Cohen and Felson, 1979) argues that the occurrence of crime requires motivated criminals, adequate goals, lack of competent guardians. There are various situations where perpetrators and targets exist when the population density is high, but despite the high density, competent guardians do not exist or can not be placed effectively. For example,
It is the latter population. As of 2000, the county population exceeded the Baltimore population of about 100,000 (751, 154 versus 754,292), which is a reversal of historical patterns.
The role of population density in the occurrence and oppression of crime has been debating for decades. The classic argument is that high density provides an opportunity for property crime as it is a substitute for the distribution of private property, the majority of which provide attractive targets for thieves. On the other hand, natural surveillance in a densely populated area has the effect of suppressing violent crime when witnesses are more and when the incident is more likely to be reported to the police. In this analysis, property crime and violent crime were selected from over 100,000 crime databases reported in Baltimore County, Maryland, USA in 2000. Calculate the density of population, property, and violent crime in urban areas. Next, for consideration, we keep blocks of population density higher than the average of all blocks.