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Assessing the Impact of Nightlight Gradients on Street Robbery and Burglary in Cincinnati, Ohio

Zhou, Hanlin
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1583154502982917

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2020, MA, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Geography.
Previous research has recognized the importance of edges to crime. Various scholars have explored how one specific type of edges such as physical edges or social edges affect crime, but rarely investigated the importance of the composite edge effect. To address this gap, this study introduces nightlight data from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite sensor on the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership Satellite (NPP-VIIRS) to measure composite edges. This study defines edges as nightlight gradients—the maximum change of nightlight from a pixel to its neighbors. Using nightlight gradients and other control variables at the tract level, this study applies negative binomial regression models to investigate the effects of edges on the street robbery rate and the burglary rate in Cincinnati. The Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) of models show that nightlight gradients improve the fitness of models of street robbery and burglary. Also, nightlight gradients make a positive impact on the street robbery rate whilst a negative impact on the burglary rate, both of which are statistically significant under the alpha level of 0.05. The different impacts on these two types of crimes may be explained by the nature of crimes and the in-situ characteristics, including nightlight.
Lin Liu, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Richard Beck, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
John Eck, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
49 p.
Geography
Crime; edges; nightlight satellite data; NPP-VIIRS

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  • Zhou, H. (2020). Assessing the Impact of Nightlight Gradients on Street Robbery and Burglary in Cincinnati, Ohio [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1583154502982917

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Zhou, Hanlin. Assessing the Impact of Nightlight Gradients on Street Robbery and Burglary in Cincinnati, Ohio. 2020. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1583154502982917.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Zhou, Hanlin. "Assessing the Impact of Nightlight Gradients on Street Robbery and Burglary in Cincinnati, Ohio." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1583154502982917

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