Crime deterrent effect of police stations

Fondevila, Gustavo; Vilalta, Carlos; Pérez, Mateo Carlos Galindo; Cafferata, Fernando G.

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102518

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“…This program is basically a massive CCTV security surveillance network integrated with other high-tech communication features enhancing police tracking capabilities, traffic control, and emergency call handling and dispatching. Police-monitored CCTV systems are a purposeful extension of the surveillance capacity of the police (Fondevila et al, 2021 ).…”

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“…The only study we found examining whether distance to police stations correlates with residential burglary shows no significant correlation (Noh, 2019 ). However, one recent study on the deterrent effect of police stations on homicide, robbery and theft crimes in Buenos Aires show evidence of a geographic pattern of these crimes increasing in frequency around police stations until a certain distance when they begin to decrease once again, thus suggesting that distance to police stations impacts offenders´ rational choices (Fondevila et al, 2021 ). It must be considered that police stations are important not only for their symbolic potential deterrence effect but because their locations affects their response time to a crime location (Noh, 2019 ).…”

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A quantile panel examination of the moderation effects of guardianship on residential burglary

Vilalta¹,

Fondevila

López-Ramírez³

2023

J Hous and the Built Environ

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Do informal and formal mechanisms of guardianship work together to reduce residential burglary? In this article we argue that informal guardianship moderates the relationship between formal mechanisms of guardianship and residential burglary. Formal guardianship requires some level of social cohesion and trust to be effective against residential burglary. We test this argument with the use of robust panel quantile methods controlling for time effects, spatial effects, and alternative explanations. Using Mexico City neighborhood crime and census data, we show evidence of a moderating weakening effect of informal guardianship on the previous relationship, particularly in deprived neighborhoods and only in the upper quantiles of the residential burglary distribution. In addition, the moderation effects seem to have weakened over time. In sum, the combination of guardianship mechanisms seems to have been more effective in high burglary risk deprived neighborhoods, although their combination seems to have become less relevant.

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Section: Evidence and Theoretical Argumentmentioning

confidence: 99%

A quantile panel examination of the moderation effects of guardianship on residential burglary

Vilalta¹,

Fondevila

López-Ramírez³

2023

J Hous and the Built Environ

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“…The analysis of police presence on crime using GIS tools is a promising innovation. For example, Fondevila et al (2021) rely on spatial data of criminal activity to model criminal behavior in the city of Buenos Aires. The authors found that police stations seem to "have a deterrent effect on crime", as crimes tended to increase exponentially as distance from the nearest police station up to 500-600 meters, past which it began to decrease again.…”

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The Relationship Between Crime Levels and Spatial Accessibility to Police Services: The Case of Paraguay

Ramirez¹

2022

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The impact of spatial accessibility to police services on crime levels is not straightforward. Previous research shows diverging outcomes of police presence over crime. One major reason for this is reporting bias, when higher accessibility creates incentives for higher crime reporting. Unlike other types of crimes, murder is assumed to be immune to reporting bias due to the severity of the offense: virtually all murders are reported. A set of OLS regressions of crimes on the spatial accessibility index with controls shows that an increase of a 1-index point in spatial accessibility (roughly a decrease of 2km in the average minimum distance to the nearest police station and an increase of 1 additional police station within a 5km radius) is associated with a 32 percent decrease in homicides. Overall, greater spatial accessibility to police stations deters murders significantly, and at the same time creates incentives for higher crime reporting.

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“…On the street segment level, the spatial patterns of these crime types exhibited spatial similarity. Other examples are the analysis of crime and crash data in order to define optimal patrol routes to reduce the total dispatch time (Kuo et al, 2013) or the application of spatial analysis techniques to analyse the crime deterrent effect of police stations (Fondevila et al, 2021). The space-time analysis techniques used in these studies are valuable, but the approach differs from what we want to achieve in this paper by focusing on CFS and priority codes.…”

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Hot spots and burning times: A spatiotemporal analysis of calls for service to establish police demand

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Crime deterrent effect of police stations

Cited by 9 publications

References 31 publications

A quantile panel examination of the moderation effects of guardianship on residential burglary

A quantile panel examination of the moderation effects of guardianship on residential burglary

The Relationship Between Crime Levels and Spatial Accessibility to Police Services: The Case of Paraguay

Hot spots and burning times: A spatiotemporal analysis of calls for service to establish police demand

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