The Strength of Association: Housing Density and Delinquency

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Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage
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Anchorage, AK
community indicators
crime mapping
housing
maps
police calls for service
social deviance
spatial analysis
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http://hdl.handle.net/11122/7687
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aci.03a.1
Abstract
This issue of Anchorage Community Indicators provides a brief examination of the relationship between housing density and delinquency in the Municipality of Anchorage. A commonly held belief is that crime rates rise as housing density increases, despite only sparse scientific evidence in support of this theory. These data show no relationship between housing density and delinquency at the block group level within the Municipality of Anchorage.
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This issue is the first of three in Series 3a, "The Strength of Community-level Rates of Association," mapping Anchorage neighborhood characteristics by census block area, highlighting the correlation or lack of correlation between those characteristics and the level of crime and social deviance in the neighborhood as measured by police calls for service for six types of offenses. Maps in this subseries should be compared with the maps in Series 3b, "An Examination of Police Service Deployment (Police Calls for Service)," for a full picture of the "strength of association."
Date
2004
Source
Anchorage Community Indicators
Publisher
Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage
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Article
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UAA Justice Center. (2004). "The Strength of Association: Housing Density and Delinquency." Anchorage Community Indicators 3a(1) (Jul 2004).
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