A Multi-indicator Approach for Smart Security Policy Making

Bella, Enrico Di; Corsi, Matteo; Leporatti, Lucia

doi:10.1007/s11205-014-0714-7

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“…This interesting approach provides a new perspective on incidents like predatory crime, arson, or criminal damage, occurring in the open space. The very specific street pattern of the downtown area of Szczecin consisting of many star-shaped places and streets that are often not parallel to each other, may be a good study area for verifying the results obtained by Bella di et al [42,43].…”

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confidence: 53%

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Land Use Influencing the Spatial Distribution of Urban Crime: A Case Study of Szczecin, Poland

Sypion-Dutkowska

Leitner

2017

IJGI

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This paper falls into a common field of scientific research and its practical applications at the interface of urban geography, environmental criminology, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The purpose of this study is to identify types of different land use which influence the spatial distribution of a set of crime types at the intra-urban scale. The originality of the adopted approach lies in its consideration of a large number of different land use types considered as hypothetically influencing the spatial distribution of nine types of common crimes, geocoded at the address-level: car crimes, theft of property-other, residential crimes, property damage, commercial crimes, drug crimes, burglary in other commercial buildings, robbery, and fights and battery. The empirical study covers 31,319 crime events registered by the Police in the years 2006-2010 in the Polish city of Szczecin with a population ca. 405,000. Main research methods used are the GIS tool "multiple ring buffer" and the "crime location quotient (LQC)". The main conclusion from this research is that a strong influence of land use types analyzed is limited to their immediate surroundings (i.e., within a distance of 50 m), with the highest concentration shown by commercial crimes and by the theft of property-other crime type. Land use types strongly attracting crime in this zone are alcohol outlets, clubs and discos, cultural facilities, municipal housing, and commercial buildings. In contrast, grandstands, cemeteries, green areas, allotment gardens, and depots and transport base are land use types strongly detracting crime in this zone.

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“…In a recent study, Bella di et al [42] extensively discuss the use of five different indicators of crime, including counts, population-based rates, risk-based rates, crime density, and location quotients). They conclude (p. 672) " .…”

Section: Methods and Analysismentioning

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Land Use Influencing the Spatial Distribution of Urban Crime: A Case Study of Szczecin, Poland

Sypion-Dutkowska

Leitner

2017

IJGI

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“…In the research developed by di Bella et al [68] provided a comparative study including traditional crime indicators by employing three multivariate data analysis techniques: (Principal Components Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling and Partial Order Scalogram Analysis by (order-preserving) Coordinates). The original dataset included all crime incident reports collected by local Carabinieri at three stations during the time period from January 1, 2009 to July 27, 2010 in the Marassi neighborhood in the city of Genoa, Italy.…”

Section: Crime Preventionmentioning

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Review of the Literature on Multicriteria Methods Applied in the Field of Public Security

Basílio¹,

Pereira²,

Costa³

2017

ujm

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Public security is a topic with increasing relevance over the years. In this context, the growing demand requires decisions that consider multiple points of view, some of them subjective. This work is based on the assumption that few studies have been conducted in the public security sector employing multiple criteria techniques to support the decision making procedure. In this context, this research had the objective of mapping the application of MCDA methods within the scope of public security. A literature review in the journals of the Scopus and ISI Web of Science databases was carried out in October 2016, accessed through Capes portal, integrating the following themes: public security and multicriteria decision aid. A systematic search was conducted by applying the Webibliomining method. After applying specific keywords and filters 965 records were returned from Scopus and 788 records from the ISI Web of Science. The review of findings summary resulted in a set of 19 articles validated as compliant for inclusion in the revision, where 19 were from Scopus and 6 were shared with the Web of Science base. The analysis of the articles showed that there is no predominant multicriteria method in the context of the search. The recurrent applications refer to the resolution of the policing distribution problem, and classification of crime rate by region. The key contribution of this work is to provide the reader with a map of public safety problems already addressed in the context of MCDAs approaches and to highlight aspects of this problem that have not yet explored in the context of the MCDA.

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“…), the use of POSAC is particularly suitable when the objective is to rank the observations (e.g. : Patil and Taillie 2004;di Bella et al 2015). It can thus be useful in our case, where the objective is to rank EDs from the least to the most performing in terms of Cost-efficiency and Quality of care provided.…”

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Ranking and Prioritization of Emergency Departments Based on Multi-indicator Systems

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In this work we discuss how Emergency Departments (EDs) can be ranked on the basis of multiple indicators. This problem is of absolute relevance due to the increasing importance of EDs in regional healthcare systems and it is also complex as the number of indicators that have been proposed in the literature to measure ED performance is very high. Current literature faces this problem using synthetic (or numerically aggregated) indicators of a set of performance measures but, although simple, this solution has a number of drawbacks that make this choice inefficient: a compensation effect among the indicators; a high degree of subjectivism in the indicators weighting; opacity in the decision making; all the EDs are considered to be comparable. Indeed, the situations in which EDs are comparable (i.e. when all the performance of one ED are not lower than the performance indicators of the other) are a minority and incomparability is by itself a source of information that should be used to identify situations for which different policy actions should be designed. In this work we propose to use non compensatory composite indicators and partial ordering theory to rank and compare EDs giving value to the reasons of such an

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A Multi-indicator Approach for Smart Security Policy Making

Cited by 11 publications

References 51 publications

Land Use Influencing the Spatial Distribution of Urban Crime: A Case Study of Szczecin, Poland

Land Use Influencing the Spatial Distribution of Urban Crime: A Case Study of Szczecin, Poland

Review of the Literature on Multicriteria Methods Applied in the Field of Public Security

Ranking and Prioritization of Emergency Departments Based on Multi-indicator Systems

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