The t-tests showed that low-income neighborhoods were more socioeconomically disadvantaged and had less greenery than high-income neighborhoods. The final regression models showed that neighborhood greenery had a negative relationship with outdoor crimes for low-income neighborhoods but a positive ...
Bradley Bridge, an attorney with theDefender Association of Philadelphia, points to differences in policing around the state, which he says can have a dramatic effect on arrests. Heavy policing in some neighborhoods in Philadelphia makes low-income and nonwhite residents more likely to be arrested,...
This building strategy helped create commercial districts within neighborhoods. Buffalo's housing stock has a wide variety of architectural styles, including Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial, Neoclassical Revival, Craftsman bungalows, and Sears catalog houses. For multifamily housing, Buffalo ...
Urban crimes tend to occur more often in neighborhoods with more outlets selling harmful products (alcohol and tobacco) and often find their ways in neighborhoods with less than well-to-do socioeconomic status (higher poverty households occupied by minority ethnic groups). This consensus prevails in...
Xu et al. (2018) draw similar conclusions that improving street lighting systems can lead to better neighborhoods with low crime rates in Detroit, Michigan. These researchers calculated spatial autocorrelation based on the location and brightness of nighttime streetlights and the location and number of...
Spatial autocorrelation was the method employed to measure the effect of environmental characteristics on criminality in Monterrey, Mexico. Using data from 2010, it was observed that neighborhoods with high crime rates positively impact criminality in neighboring areas [48]. In addition, the spatial con...