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Activity Number: 475 - Understanding Threats to People, Data, and Privacy
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Social Statistics Section
Abstract #306592
Title: A Study of Spatial Misalignment with an Application to Urban Crime
Author(s): Claire Kelling* and Murali Haran and Corina Graif and Aleksandra Slavkovic and Gizem Korkmaz
Companies: and Penn State University and Penn State and Penn State University and Social & Decision Analytics Division, BII, UVA
Keywords: call for service; point process; spatial misalignment
Abstract:

The relationship between crime and sociological processes, such as gentrification, has been widely studied but with varying conclusions. There are some studies that conclude that gentrification leads to an increase in crime while others conclude exactly the opposite. In this study, we analyze a point process of exact location/times of calls for service (CFS) for crimes in urban areas. We create a framework for modeling areal unit covariates and this point process, through addressing the problem of point-areal spatial misalignment. We also have unique data on real estate sales, which will allow us to combine two point processes in our analysis. Through this framework and data, we create novel contributions about the spatial displacement of crime accounting for urban sociological processes.


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