![handle is hein.journals/crmlsc55 and id is 1 raw text is: Crime Law Soc Change (2011) 55:1-13
DOI 10.1007/s10611-010-9264-3
Assessing temporal and weather influences on property
crime in Beijing, China
Chen Peng - Shu Xueming - Yuan Hongyong-
Li Dengsheng
Published online: 25 November 2010
© Springer Science+Business Media B.V 2010
Abstract Though the relationships between environment and crime have been studied
a lot in many countries, this work is still a void in China. This work presents the study
about how property crimes are influenced by the temporal and weather factors in China.
With the crime data collected from police, the property crimes pattern by season of year,
day of week and time of day are investigated firstly. Then the influence of the temporal
variables-major holidays, school close days and weekends-and weather on the
crimes are tested. The findings show that the robbery is significantly influenced by the
temporal variables but has no correlations with weather, while burglary is not only
affected by the temporal variables but also correlated with sun light hours.
Introduction
The relationship between environment and crime had been widely recognized and
researched [7-11, 14, 16, 21], but little is known about how temporal and weather
variations influence the crime patterns in China. In this article, there are several
reasons for doing this research. First, most work about crime pattern research mainly
focused on developed countries, very few work were devoted to the developing
countries. Though Vdnia Ceccato assessed how Homicide varied by space and time
in Brazil [3], the country's political regime is different from that in China. As the
largest developing and socialism country in the world, China has its unique political
regime and justice system. Many crimes in China have different definitions or
classifications from those in other countries. So, studying the crime patterns in China
will be interesting and maybe a complementary to the crime research.
C. Peng (E) - S. Xueming - Y. Hongyong
Engineering Physics Department, Tsinghua University, Room 1017, Liuqing Building, Beijing, China
e-mail: p-chen07@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn
L. Dengsheng
Commanding Center, Beijing Municipal Public Safety Bureau, No. 9 Qianmen East Street,
Dongcheng District, Beijing, China
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