Land Use and Youth Offending

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

Abstract

Numerous studies have investigated the link between land use and crime, revealing that crime tends to concentrate around specific facilities such as fast-food restaurants, parks, playgrounds, and public schools. These findings have implications for place-based crime prevention measures. However, limited research has explored youth offending across different land use types, resulting in insufficient knowledge to develop place-based crime prevention approaches for youth crime. The current study aims to understand how various facilities are spatially related to youth offending. We examine over 30 different land use types and compare the spatial distribution of crime across facilities between adults and juveniles. Drawing on opportunistic perspectives, the study hypothesizes that similarities outweigh differences in crime distribution across land uses for adults and juveniles. The spatial regression model is estimated using crime data, with the goal of offering potential place-based crime prevention strategies for youth offending.

Authors

• SooHyun O, University of South Florida

• YongJei Lee, University of South Florida