Testing the Impact of Place Management on Crime across Different Land Uses

• In Event: Crime and Place: Place Management and Land Use

Abstract

Whereas recent place-based crime research has shown that land uses are good predictors of crime, systematic investigation of how land use ownership is related to crime has been less common. Most past research has drilled down to the specific type of land uses, but has not examined the underpinning mechanism of how the place is managed. This is important, as considerable evidence exists showing that the crime is highly variable even within homogeneous categories of places. Place management theory suggests that how owners operate their places influences the crime at their locations. Though the place management theory provides a theoretical explanation of how place ownership is related to crime, the theory has yet to be tested in the literature. Therefore, this study attempts to fills this gap by examining the role of place ownership in the production of crime across a wide variety of land used. We also examine empirical, theoretical, and practical implications of this research in this study.

Authors

• SooHyun O, University of Cincinnati

• YongJei Lee, University of Colorado Colorado Springs

• John Eck, University of Cincinnati