The Duality of Neighborhood Social Conduits: A Case Study of Greenspace Crime

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

Abstract

Public greenspaces constitute a major land use across urban environments. Conceptualized as features that comprise an important component of the environmental backcloth, criminological scholarship demonstrates that greenspaces can function as crime generators, attractors or detractors. What is less clear is whether and how diurnal and weekly shifts lead some greenspaces to ‘flip’ from a largely crime free space to one that encourages particular types of crime. Through the spatial integration of crime incident data, census and land use data, we will use logistic and circular regression techniques to assess if particular greenspace types and the surrounding neighbourhood context influence the stability or change in drug, property, nuisance and violent crime across 24 hour and weekly periods for approximately 4,265 greenspaces in Australia.

Authors

• Anthony Kimpton, The University of Queensland

• Jonathan Corcoran, The University of Queensland

• John R Hipp, University of California, Irvine

• Rebecca Wickes, Monash University

• Renee Zahnow, The Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland