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SUMMARY:Built environment and violent crime: An environmental audit approa
 ch using Google Street View - Professor Antonio Páez\, School of Geograph
 y and Earth Sciences McMaster University
DTSTART:20171011T150000Z
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CONTACT:Ingrid Cizaite
DESCRIPTION:In this seminar\, I will present recent research on the role o
 f the built environment in inducing or hindering violent crime. Previous s
 tudies\, for instance of the broken window theory\, have provided evidence
  that physical disorder is an environmental correlate of crime. This inclu
 des broken windows\, vacant/abandoned housings\, abandoned cars on street\
 , graffiti\, and decayed street lighting\, among other things. However\, r
 esearch into these issues is hampered by the difficulty involved in collec
 ting fine-scale quantitative environmental data. The conventional environm
 ental audit approach\, which aims to assess environmental features\, is co
 stly\, time-consuming\, and burdensome. To alleviate this\, we use Google 
 Street View to study the relationship between violent crime and physical f
 eatures of urban residential environment. More concretely\, a Poisson regr
 ession model with spatial filtering is used to identify socio-economic cor
 relates of violent crime. Parting from the hypothesis that omission of bui
 lt environmental factors results in systematic residual pattern\, we proce
 ed to analyze the spatial filter to select sites for virtual environmental
  audits. A series of physical environmental factors are identified using c
 ontingency table analysis. The results provide both theoretical and practi
 cal implications for several theories of crime and crime prevention effort
 s.\n\nAntonio Páez is Professor at the School of Geography and Earth Scie
 nces at McMaster University. His primary research interests are in the fie
 lds of travel behavior\, spatial analysis\, and transportation systems. He
  has published extensively in the international literature\, in journals t
 hat include the Journal of Transport Geography\, Environment and Planning 
 A\, Urban Studies\, Transportation Research Part A – Policy and Practice
 \, Journal of Geographical Systems\, and Transportation. He currently serv
 es as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Geographical Systems and as Associ
 ate Editor of Papers in Regional Science.
LOCATION:Mill Lane Lecture Room 1
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