Anchorage Community Indicators Series 3: Neighborhood Characteristics & Police Calls for Service maps neighborhood characteristics by census block area and highlights the correlation or lack of correlation between those characteristics and the level of neighborhood crime and social deviance as measured by police calls for service.
- Series 3a. The Strength of Community-level Rates of Association (3 issues): This subseries maps neighborhood characteristics (housing density, population density, and poverty) by census block area, and highlights 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. Maps in this subseries should be compared with the maps in Series 3b for a full picture of the "strength of association."
- Series 3b. An Examination of Police Service Deployment (Police Calls for Service) (6 issues): Showing the rate by census block area and community council of Anchorage Police Department calls for service in 2003 for six categories of crime: property crime, violent crime, domestic violence, weapons offenses, alcohol offenses, and drug offenses.
- Series 3c. Density of Police Calls-for-Service, 2003 (6 issues): Showing the number per square mile of Anchorage Police Department calls for service in 2003 for six categories of crime and community disorder: property crime, violent crime, domestic violence, weapons offenses, alcohol-related incidents, and drug-related incidents.
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The Strength of Association: Neighborhood Poverty and Social Deviance
University of Justice Center
This issue of Anchorage Community Indicators examines the strength of association between neighborhood-level poverty in Anchorage neighborhoods— measured as the percentage of households falling below the federally designated threshold of poverty — and social deviance — measured as the annual rate of police calls-for-service for various offenses. These data show poverty to be significantly related to a number of police calls-for-service indicators. These simple measures of association (not causation) align with studies in other contexts which have found that communities experiencing economic hardship bear a double burden in that they also suffer a disproportionate amount of social problems.
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The Strength of Association: Population Density and Social Deviance
University of Justice Center
This issue of Anchorage Community Indicators provides a brief examination of the relationship between population density and social deviance in the Municipality of Anchorage. A commonly held belief is that social density is positively correlated with social deviance, despite only sparse scientific evidence in support of this theory. A previous issue of Anchorage Community Indicators ("The Strength of Association: Housing Density and Delinquency," ACI 3a(1) (Jul 2004)) found no evidence of a relationship between housing density and deviance. The current issue builds on these previously reported findings by introducing a second measure of social density: population density, once again finding no evidence that social density of Anchorage neighborhoods is associated with community-level rates of social deviance.
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An Examination of Police Service Deployment: Alcohol Offenses
University of Justice Center
This issue of Anchorage Community Indicators maps the rates by census block area and community council of Anchorage Police Department calls for service in 2003 for alcohol offenses in Anchorage.
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An Examination of Police Service Deployment: Domestic Violence
University of Justice Center
This issue of Anchorage Community Indicators maps the rates by census block area and community council of Anchorage Police Department calls for service in 2003 for domestic violence in Anchorage.
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An Examination of Police Service Deployment: Drug Offenses
University of Justice Center
This issue of Anchorage Community Indicators maps the rates by census block area and community council of Anchorage Police Department calls for service in 2003 for drug offenses in Anchorage.
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An Examination of Police Service Deployment: Serious Property Crime
University of Justice Center
This issue of Anchorage Community Indicators maps the rates by census block area and community council of Anchorage Police Department calls for service in 2003 for serious property crime in Anchorage.
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An Examination of Police Service Deployment: Serious Violent Crime
University of Justice Center
This issue of Anchorage Community Indicators maps the rates by census block area and community council of Anchorage Police Department calls for service in 2003 for serious violent crime in Anchorage.
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An Examination of Police Service Deployment: Weapons Offenses
University of Justice Center
This issue of Anchorage Community Indicators maps the rates by census block area and community council of Anchorage Police Department calls for service in 2003 for weapons offenses in Anchorage.
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Density of Police Calls-for-Service, 2003: Alcohol-Related Incidents
University of Justice Center
This issue of Anchorage Community Indicators maps the density of Anchorage Police Department calls for service in 2003 for alcohol-related incidents in Anchorage.
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Density of Police Calls-for-Service, 2003: Domestic Violence
University of Justice Center
This issue of Anchorage Community Indicators maps the density of Anchorage Police Department calls for service in 2003 for domestic violence in Anchorage.
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Density of Police Calls-for-Service, 2003: Drug-Related Incidents
University of Justice Center
This issue of Anchorage Community Indicators maps the density of Anchorage Police Department calls for service in 2003 for drug-related incidents in Anchorage.
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Density of Police Calls-for-Service, 2003: Serious Property Crime
University of Justice Center
This issue of Anchorage Community Indicators maps the density of Anchorage Police Department calls for service in 2003 for serious property crime in Anchorage.
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Density of Police Calls-for-Service, 2003: Serious Violent Crime
University of Justice Center
This issue of Anchorage Community Indicators maps the density of Anchorage Police Department calls for service in 2003 for serious violent crime in Anchorage.
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Density of Police Calls-for-Service, 2003: Weapons Offenses
University of Justice Center
This issue of Anchorage Community Indicators maps the density of Anchorage Police Department calls for service in 2003 for serious weapons offense in Anchorage.
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The Strength of Association: Housing Density and Delinquency
University of Justice Center
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.