Spatial Analysis of Crime in the Evaluation of Public Housing Redevelopment
Published in Crime Mapping: A Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
Recommended citation: Bacon, Michael T., and James Fraser. “Spatial Analysis of Crime in the Evaluation of Public Housing Redevelopment.” Crime Mapping: A Journal of Research and Practice 4, no. 2 (2012): 69–85. http://michaeltbacon.github.io/files/Bacon and Fraser - 2012 - Spatial Analysis of Crime in the Evaluation of Pub.pdf
This is a methodological paper that emerged from my master thesis work. To a degree it attempts to wrestle with what I found as a dearth of information on how to apply crime incident data to something other than by law enforcement, specifically to community analysis.
Abstract
While previous research has provided law enforcement agencies with trend analysis based on geostatistical models, incident data mapping can also estimate citizen experience of crime. We present a methodology for estimating experience of “signal crimes” based on incident report data. We apply this method to a HOPE VI project in Durham, NC by analyzing crime at public housing complexes to which residences were relocated between 2002 and 2004. Declines in experienced density of shooting from Few Gardens occurred with some increases in experienced murder density. Results indicate that relocated residents experienced improvements in crime levels but serious problems persist.
Recommended citation: Bacon, Michael T., and James Fraser. “Spatial Analysis of Crime in the Evaluation of Public Housing Redevelopment.” Crime Mapping: A Journal of Research and Practice 4, no. 2 (2012): 69–85.