Crime seasonality and its variations across space |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Criminology, Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Canada;2. School of Geography, University of Leeds, West Yorkshire LS2 9JT, United Kingdom;1. Department of Geography, Kent State University, Kent, USA;2. State Key Lab of Information Engineering in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing & Key Laboratory of Aerospace Information Security and Trusted Computing of the Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China;3. College of Criminal Justice, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China;1. New Zealand Police, 180 Molesworth Street, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand;2. University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, 8041, New Zealand;1. College of Medicine, Washington State University, PO Box 1495, Spokane, WA, 99210-1495, USA;2. Department of Planning and Public Administration, Eastern Washington University, 668 N. Riverpoint Blvd, Spokane, WA, 99202, USA;3. Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology, Washington State University, PO Box 1495, Spokane, WA, 99210-1495, USA;4. School of Anesthesia, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center, 101 W 8th Ave, Spokane, WA, 99204, USA;1. School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, 3004, Australia;2. Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia;1. School of Criminology, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville, Montréal QC H3C 3J7, Canada;2. International Centre for Comparative Criminology, Canada |
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| Abstract: | Investigations into the seasonal patterns of crime date back 180 years to the beginnings of spatial criminology. This original research by Adolphe Quetelet, and much subsequent work, has shown that various crimes have a seasonal component, but the strength and timing of the respective seasonalities vary by crime type. In this paper, we first investigate the existence of seasonality for a number of different crime types, but also the variations of seasonality across space. We find that not only do the various crime types exhibit seasonal patterns, but those seasonal patterns have relatively distinct spatial patterns. This has implications for theory and policy. |
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| Keywords: | Seasonality Routine activity theory Spatial point pattern test |
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