Crime statistics are ubiquitous in modern society - but how
accurate are they? This book investigates the science of crime
measurement focussing on four main questions: how do we count
crime? How do we calculate crime rates? Are there other
measurements of crime? What are the issues surrounding crime
statistics? All too often we take the measurement of crime at face
value when there is, in fact, a science behind it. This book
specifically deals with issues related to spatially-referenced
crime data that are used to analyse crime patterns across the urban
environment. The first section of the book considers alternative
crime rate calculations. The second section of the book contains a
thorough discussion of a measure of crime specialisation. Finally,
the third section of the book addresses a number of aggregation
issues that are present with such data: crime type aggregations,
temporal aggregations of crime data, the stability of crime
patterns over time, and the importance of spatial scale. This book
builds on a growing body of literature on the science of crime
measurement and offers a comprehensive account of this growing
subfield of criminology. The book speaks to wider debates in the
fields of crime analysis, environmental criminology and crime
prevention and will be perfect reading for advanced level
undergraduate and graduate students looking to find out more about
the measurement of crime.
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