Spatio-Temporal Pattern of Street Property Offences:A Case Study of Pudong District, Shanghai
In order to provide the basis and measures for Pudong street crime prevention and control, this paper tries to find out:1) the spatio-temporal patterns of street property crimes including theft, robbery and snatch;2) the relationship between urban environmental factors and distribution of those crimes in Pudong District of Shanghai. In the paper statistics and spatial analysis are used. The results show that:1) the temporal distribution of street property crimes is closely related to people’s life and work cycle. The higher the frequency of street usage is, the more the street property crimes would be. The distribution of those crimes in the day and the night changes with the distribution of local employment, commercial place, etc. 2) The variation of crime positions is influenced by the intensity of people’s activity, the capability of natural surveillance and the convenience of escape. 3) In Pudong, high-incidence of theft cases occurs around Lujiazui commercial area and decreases from west to east, while the hotspots of robbery and snatch scatter around urban and town settlements. 4) The regression analysis shows that crossing road is one of the most important factors for street property crimes. Numbers and density of the crossing roads both have positive influence on street propery crimes. Some advices are proposed in this paper for crime prevention and control, such as strengthening the police patrol, improving environment design, and increasing the closed-circuit television monitoring, etc.
urban streetproperty offencescrimespatio-temporal patternPudong District of Shanghai
国家科技期刊平台
NSTL
万方数据
维普
