CRIM 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Modifiable Areal Unit Problem, Environmental Criminology, Crime Mapping

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 352
• Professor: Martin Andresen

Document Summary

Lecture 7 hot spots in space and time. Crime is neither randomly nor evenly distributed across space. Nodes, paths, and edges and in particular places. Hot spots have an intensity of these things. Change your scale of analysis results can change: different size units. Ecological fallacy: when you run an analysis and attributing results to people inside small areas: true on average, does not mean every person in that area has that characteristic, true as a whole, not all its parts. Atomistic fallacy: true in all its parts, but not as a whole. What about risk: controlling where the volume of people is. Rtm outperforms kernel density maps should(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e a surprise (cid:373)ore i(cid:374)for(cid:373)atio(cid:374) Near-repeat identified the problem rtm made things more precise. The criminological day: spatial patterns, temporal patterns, daily/weekly patterns or crime, decreased residential crimes on weekends because people are home more. More or less crime during the week, 8am-4pm.