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A Social Interaction Model For Crime Hot Spots
Proceedings 28th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation
(2014)
Abstract
A common feature of mapped crime patterns is a strong spatial and temporal clustering into crime “hot spots”. In this paper we explore a social interaction model for the evolution of the attractiveness of the crime environment for criminal activity. We see how hot spots may arise when the idiosyncratic attractiveness of the environment is not encouraging for criminal activity. The stability of these hot spots is determined to depend on both the size of the hot spot and the social interaction function itself.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2014
Editor
Flaminio Squazzoni, Fabio Baronio, Claudia Archetti, and Marco Castellani
Publisher
ECMS
ISBN
978-0-9564944-8-1
DOI
10.7148/2014-0745
Citation Information
Evan C Haskell. "A Social Interaction Model For Crime Hot Spots" Proceedings 28th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (2014) p. 745 - 751 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/evan-haskell/97/