We advance scholarship related to home foreclosures and neighborhood crime by employing Granger causality tests and multilevel growth modeling with annual data from Chicago neighborhoods over the 1998-2009 period. We find that completed foreclosures temporally lead property crime and not vice versa. More completed foreclosures during a year both increase the level of property crime and slow its...

This paper falls into a common field of scientific research and its practical applications at the interface of urban geography, environmental criminology, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The purpose of this study is to identify types of different land use which influence the spatial distribution of a set of crime types at the intra-urban scale. The originality of the adopted approach ...

This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime. We consider possible crime effects from the two large waves of immigration that occurred in the UK over the past decade. The first of these was the late 1990s/early 2000s wave of asylum seekers, whilst the second the large inflow of workers from EU accession countries. A simple economics of crime model, dovetailed with the rela...

INTRODUCTION Violence is a major public health issue, globally and on the African continent. This paper looks at Uganda and begins the process of identifying the factors that predict violence in that country. The purpose is to interpret the implications of the study results for violence prevention programs. METHODS The study includes the responses of 2 399 Ugandans collected in 2011 by the Fi...