The Grass is Always Greener: Analyzing Crime Concentration and Specialization in Urban Greenspace Environs

Q2 Social Sciences
Cheyenne Hodgen, Kathryn Wuschke
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Abstract

Greenspaces play an important role in the urban landscape, with prior research suggesting that they are associated with numerous health and social benefits for residents. Despite this, research conflicts regarding the relationship between greenspaces and crime, with some studies finding these locations to be criminogenic and others finding them to be protective against local crime. This study examines this relationship in Portland, Oregon, considering different greenspace types as well as different crime types. Further, this study presents a novel methodological adaption to measure crime concentration and specialization around discrete location types by integrating a street network buffer into the standard Location Quotient (LQ) metric. Results suggest that Portland’s greenspaces as a whole do not experience a concentration of crime; however, varying patterns emerge when examining different greenspace and crime types. This study identifies diverse crime concentrations in proximity to small parks, while finding other greenspace categories to be associated with crime-specific concentrations nearby. Others, still, have lower than expected counts of crime concentrating nearby, potentially demonstrating protective trends. These results highlight the importance of disaggregating both crime and location types to better understand the complex relationship between greenspaces and crime.
草地总是更绿:分析城市绿地环境中的犯罪集中与专业化
绿色空间在城市景观中发挥着重要作用,先前的研究表明,它们与居民的许多健康和社会效益有关。尽管如此,关于绿地与犯罪之间关系的研究存在分歧,一些研究发现这些地方容易犯罪,而另一些研究发现它们可以防止当地犯罪。这项研究考察了俄勒冈州波特兰市的这种关系,考虑了不同的绿地类型以及不同的犯罪类型。此外,本研究提出了一种新的方法,通过将街道网络缓冲区集成到标准位置商(LQ)度量中,来测量离散位置类型周围的犯罪集中度和专业化。结果表明,波特兰的绿地作为一个整体并没有经历犯罪的集中;然而,在研究不同的绿地和犯罪类型时,出现了不同的模式。这项研究确定了小公园附近不同的犯罪集中度,同时发现其他绿色空间类别与附近特定的犯罪集中度有关。然而,其他城市的犯罪率低于预期,集中在附近,可能显示出保护趋势。这些结果强调了将犯罪和地点类型分开来更好地理解绿地和犯罪之间的复杂关系的重要性。
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Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law and Society
Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law and Society Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science
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