The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Reported Crimes in Louisiana: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis

Leitner, Michael; Barnett, Michelle; Kent, Joshua; Barnett, T. L.

doi:10.1080/00330124.2010.547156

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“…'Amount of crime in the community' (β = -0.124) is a negative function of Katrina-related environmental injustice-that is, the higher the crime rate, the less people see community problems as environmental injustice issues. It has been reported in the literature that burglaries increased fourfold in the month after Katrina relative to the month preceding the disaster (Frailing and Harper, 2007;Leitner et al, 2011). Munasinghe (2007) also found that robberies and looting rates were significantly higher than prior to Katrina.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…Few empirical studies have investigated the disaster and crime rates (see Frailing and Harper, 2007;VanLandingham, 2007;Leitner et al, 2011). Owing to the deployment of more than 30,000 National Guard troops to Orleans Parish, low crime rates were reported in the immediate aftermath of Katrina, through to December 2005.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Owing to the deployment of more than 30,000 National Guard troops to Orleans Parish, low crime rates were reported in the immediate aftermath of Katrina, through to December 2005. During the recovery and rebuilding period, though, crimes involving burglary, larceny, and robbery were at pre-Katrina levels, and violent crime, such as aggravated assault and murder, was higher than pre-Katrina averages by the end of 2007 (VanLandingham, 2007;Leitner et al, 2011). Most of the violent crime occurred in low-income minority communities still struggling to recover.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Hurricane Katrina‐linked environmental injustice: race, class, and place differentials in attitudes

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Claims of environmental injustice, human neglect, and racism dominated the popular and academic literature after Hurricane Katrina struck the United States in August 2005. A systematic analysis of environmental injustice from the perspective of the survivors remains scanty or nonexistent. This paper presents, therefore, a systematic empirical analysis of the key determinants of Katrina-induced environmental injustice attitudes among survivors in severely affected parishes (counties) in Louisiana and Mississippi three years into the recovery process. Statistical models based on a random sample of survivors were estimated, with the results revealing significant predictors such as age, children in household under 18, education, homeownership, and race. The results further indicate that African-Americans were more likely to perceive environmental injustice following Katrina than their white counterparts. Indeed, the investigation reveals that there are substantial racial gaps in measures of environmental injustice. The theoretical, methodological, and applied policy implications of these findings are discussed.

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“…While many of the most basic approaches remain popular, such as spatial autocorrelation, spatial ellipses, kernel density estimation and spatial scan statistics (Wang 2005 ;Kent and Leitner 2007 ;Rogerson and Yamada 2009 ;Anselin et al 2009 ) , advanced approaches now include fuzzy clustering (Grubesic 2006 ) , spatio-temporal modeling of crime Leitner et al 2011 ) , geospatial visual analytics (Anselin and Kochinsky 2010 ) , and agent-based simulation ( Eck and Liu 2008 ). While many of the most basic approaches remain popular, such as spatial autocorrelation, spatial ellipses, kernel density estimation and spatial scan statistics (Wang 2005 ;Kent and Leitner 2007 ;Rogerson and Yamada 2009 ;Anselin et al 2009 ) , advanced approaches now include fuzzy clustering (Grubesic 2006 ) , spatio-temporal modeling of crime Leitner et al 2011 ) , geospatial visual analytics (Anselin and Kochinsky 2010 ) , and agent-based simulation ( Eck and Liu 2008 ).…”

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The "Geotechnologies and the Environment" series is intended to provide specialists in the geotechnologies and academics who utilize these technologies, with an opportunity to share novel approaches, present interesting (sometimes counterintuitive) case studies, and most importantly to situate GIS, remote sensing, GPS, the internet, new technologies, and methodological advances in a real world context. In doing so, the books in the series will be inherently applied and re fl ect the rich variety of research performed by geographers and allied professionals.Beyond the applied nature of many of the papers and individual contributions, the series interrogates the dynamic relationship between nature and society. For this reason, many contributors focus on human-environment interactions. The series are not limited to an interpretation of the environment as nature per se. Rather, the series "places" people and social forces in context and thus explore the many sociospatial environments humans construct for themselves as they settle the landscape. Consequently, contributions will use geotechnologies to examine both urban and rural landscapes.

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“…Infrastructure protection including the levee, utility, communications, and the issue of crime were the main concerns for the businesses that had opened (Beggan, 2010;Leitner, Barnett, Kent, & Barnett, 2011).…”

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The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Reported Crimes in Louisiana: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis

Cited by 43 publications

References 20 publications

Hurricane Katrina‐linked environmental injustice: race, class, and place differentials in attitudes

Hurricane Katrina‐linked environmental injustice: race, class, and place differentials in attitudes

Crime Modeling and Mapping Using Geospatial Technologies

Disaster and poverty : the differential impacts of disaster on the poor in the Gulf Coast region.

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