A multilevel examination of the association between COVID-19 restrictions and residence-to-crime distance.

IF 3.1 Q1 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Crime Science Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-11-14 DOI:10.1186/s40163-022-00172-1

Theodore S Lentz, Rebecca Headley Konkel, Hailey Gallagher, Dominick Ratkowski

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Abstract

Restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted people's daily routine activities. Rooted in crime pattern and routine activity theories, this study tests whether the enactment of a Safer-at-Home mandate was associated with changes in the distance between individuals' home addresses and the locations of where they committed crimes (i.e., residence-to-crime distance). Analyses are based on violent (N = 282), property (N = 1552), and disorder crimes (N = 1092) reported to one police department located in a United States' Midwest suburb. Multilevel models show that residence-to-crime distances were significantly shorter during the Safer-at-Home order, compared to the pre- and post-Safer-at-Home timeframes, while controlling for individual and neighborhood characteristics. Additionally, these relationships varied by crime type. Consistent with the literature, the findings support the argument that individuals tend to offend relatively near their home address. The current findings extend the state of the literature by highlighting how disruptions to daily routine activities stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic led to alterations in crime patterns, in which analyses indicated shorter distances between home address and offense locations.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s40163-022-00172-1.

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对 COVID-19 限制与居住地与犯罪距离之间关系的多层次研究。

COVID-19 大流行造成的限制打断了人们的日常活动。本研究以犯罪模式和日常活动理论为基础，检验了 "加强居家安全 "规定的颁布是否与个人家庭住址与犯罪地点之间距离的变化（即居住地与犯罪地点之间的距离）有关。分析基于向美国中西部郊区一个警察局报告的暴力犯罪（N = 282）、财产犯罪（N = 1552）和扰乱治安犯罪（N = 1092）。多层次模型显示，在控制个人和邻里特征的情况下，与 "在家更安全 "计划之前和之后的时间段相比，"在家更安全 "计划期间居住地与犯罪地点之间的距离明显缩短。此外，这些关系因犯罪类型而异。研究结果与相关文献一致，支持个人倾向于在家庭住址附近犯罪的观点。目前的研究结果扩展了文献的研究范围，强调了COVID-19大流行病对日常活动的干扰如何导致犯罪模式的改变，其中分析表明家庭住址和犯罪地点之间的距离缩短了：在线版本包含补充材料，可查阅 10.1186/s40163-022-00172-1。

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Crime Science Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

CiteScore

11.90

自引率

8.20%

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审稿时长

13 weeks

期刊介绍： Crime Science is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal with an applied focus. The journal''s main focus is on research articles and systematic reviews that reflect the growing cooperation among a variety of fields, including environmental criminology, economics, engineering, geography, public health, psychology, statistics and urban planning, on improving the detection, prevention and understanding of crime and disorder. Crime Science will publish theoretical articles that are relevant to the field, for example, approaches that integrate theories from different disciplines. The goal of the journal is to broaden the scientific base for the understanding, analysis and control of crime and disorder. It is aimed at researchers, practitioners and policy-makers with an interest in crime reduction. It will also publish short contributions on timely topics including crime patterns, technological advances for detection and prevention, and analytical techniques, and on the crime reduction applications of research from a wide range of fields. Crime Science publishes research articles, systematic reviews, short contributions and theoretical articles. While Crime Science uses the APA reference style, the journal welcomes submissions using alternative reference styles on a case-by-case basis.