Property crime specialization in Detroit, Michigan

Marcus Felson, Yanqing Xu and Shanhe Jiang

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2022, vol. 82, issue C

Abstract: Objectives: This paper examines whether different parts of a city “specialize” in different types of property crime. Data: The current paper combines police data from 2011 through 2015 to examine property crime specialization among Detroit's 879 block groups. Crime types include residential burglaries, non-residential burglaries, thefts from buildings, thefts from vehicles, and thefts of vehicles. Results: Only 22 block groups are hot spots for all five property crime types. Some 167 block groups are hot spots for only one of the five crime types. Conclusions: A hot spot for one type of property crime is not necessarily a hot spot for another. We discuss whether a “law of specialization” applies more generally to the urban analysis of crime.

Keywords: Crime concentration; Crime specialization; Crime pattern theory; Crime hot spots (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2022.101953

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