Do Community-level Hotbeds of Repeat/Near Repeat Crime Exist? Visualizing Concordance and Discordance in Spatiotemporal Patterns across Index Crimes

• In Event: New Directions in the Analysis of Repeat/Near Repeat Crime

Abstract

Research on the near repeat phenomenon has documented the existence of spatiotemporal patterns across various crimes ranging from burglary to maritime piracy. Limited research has explored the community conditions in which repeat/near repeat crime is most likely to occur and no research to date has examined whether spatiotemporal patterns of various index crimes are likely to cluster in certain communities. The present study identifies spatiotemporal patterns for index crimes and overlaps them to visualize whether some communities serve as general hotbeds for near repeat crime. Communities are then classified based upon repeat/near repeat crime patterns across crime types. Implications for criminological theory and policies to reduce repeat/near repeat victimization are discussed.

Authors

• Danielle Stanford, Temple University

• Jeffrey T Ward, Temple University

• Grant Drawve, University of Arkansas

• Matthew Nobles, University of Central Florida

• Shaun A Thomas, University of Arkansas