Comparing Residents’ Fear of Crime with Recorded Crime Data—Case Study of Ostrava, Czech Republic
The fear of crime is an established research topic, not only in sociology, environmental psychology and criminology, but also in GIScience. Using spatial analysis to analyse patterns, explore hotspots and determine the significance of respective surveys is one reason for the increase in popularity o...
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| description | The fear of crime is an established research topic, not only in sociology, environmental psychology and criminology, but also in GIScience. Using spatial analysis to analyse patterns, explore hotspots and determine the significance of respective surveys is one reason for the increase in popularity of such research topics for geographers, cartographers and spatial data scientists. This paper presents the results of an intensive online map-based questionnaire with 1551 respondents from the city of Ostrava, Czech Republic. The respondents marked 3792 points associated with the fear of crime over a ten week period. The perception data were compared with recorded crime data acquired from police department records for the years 2015−2018. This paper explores the spatial autocorrelation from perceived hotspots and from recorded crime hotspots. Our findings fit into the literature confirming results about the locations that most frequently attract fear, but there is still room for more investigations regarding the links between recorded crime and the fear of crime. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b5f13dd23b7e41b3a7d0f6104470dc902022-12-21T23:41:36ZengMDPI AGISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information2220-99642019-09-018940110.3390/ijgi8090401ijgi8090401Comparing Residents’ Fear of Crime with Recorded Crime Data—Case Study of Ostrava, Czech RepublicJiří Pánek0Igor Ivan1Lucie Macková2Department of Development and Environmental Studies, Palacky University Olomouc, 771 46 Olomouc, Czech RepublicDepartment of Geoinformatics, VSB—Technical University of Ostrava, 708 00 Ostrava, Czech RepublicDepartment of Development and Environmental Studies, Palacky University Olomouc, 771 46 Olomouc, Czech RepublicThe fear of crime is an established research topic, not only in sociology, environmental psychology and criminology, but also in GIScience. Using spatial analysis to analyse patterns, explore hotspots and determine the significance of respective surveys is one reason for the increase in popularity of such research topics for geographers, cartographers and spatial data scientists. This paper presents the results of an intensive online map-based questionnaire with 1551 respondents from the city of Ostrava, Czech Republic. The respondents marked 3792 points associated with the fear of crime over a ten week period. The perception data were compared with recorded crime data acquired from police department records for the years 2015−2018. This paper explores the spatial autocorrelation from perceived hotspots and from recorded crime hotspots. Our findings fit into the literature confirming results about the locations that most frequently attract fear, but there is still room for more investigations regarding the links between recorded crime and the fear of crime.https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/9/401VGIparticipatory mappingcrime mappingPPGIS |
| spellingShingle | Jiří Pánek Igor Ivan Lucie Macková Comparing Residents’ Fear of Crime with Recorded Crime Data—Case Study of Ostrava, Czech Republic ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information VGI participatory mapping crime mapping PPGIS |
| title | Comparing Residents’ Fear of Crime with Recorded Crime Data—Case Study of Ostrava, Czech Republic |
| title_full | Comparing Residents’ Fear of Crime with Recorded Crime Data—Case Study of Ostrava, Czech Republic |
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| title_short | Comparing Residents’ Fear of Crime with Recorded Crime Data—Case Study of Ostrava, Czech Republic |
| title_sort | comparing residents fear of crime with recorded crime data case study of ostrava czech republic |
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