The Relationship to Crimes of Physical Resources

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Abstract
A land use coding system was developed to code the physical resources within 75 police beats in metropolitan Honolulu. Code categories included eating places, transient residences, permanent residences, personal services, alcohol consumption, and so on. Data on reported offenses during a four-year period were then correlated with physical resource data, yielding information on the relationship between the frequency of specific offenses and the physical resources contained in the geographical areas where the offenses occurred. The correlations indicated five patterns of reasonable magnitude and consistency: vandalism was strongly correlated with the number of permanent residences; burglary was moderately correlated with permanent and transient residences, alcohol consumption, and entertainment; forgery had moderate to strong correlations with retail stores, commercial offices, eating places, and a variety of services; property crimes and violent crimes had moderate to strong f correlations with eating places, alcohol consumption, transient residences, and entertainment; and violent crimes also had similar correlations with sex-related activities. These relationships and their implications were discussed.
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