Spatial Analysis of Rare Crimes: Homicides in Chicago, Illinois, 1989-1991
Description
This project's main goal was to develop an analytical
framework that could be used for analysis of rare crimes observed at
local (intra-city) levels of geographic aggregation. To demonstrate the
application of this framework to a real-world issue, this project
analyzed the occurrence of different types of homicide at both the
census tract and neighborhood cluster level in Chicago. Homicide counts
for Chicago's 865 census tracts for 1989-1991 were obtained from
HOMICIDES IN CHICAGO, 1965-1995 (ICPSR 6399), Part 1: Victim Level Data.
The types of homicide examined were gang-related, instrumental,
family-related expressive, known person expressive, stranger expressive,
and other. Demographic and socioeconomic data at the census tract level
for the year 1990 were obtained from the Neighborhood Change Database
(NCDB) at the Urban Institute. Part 1 contains these data, as initially
obtained, at the census tract level. Part 2 contains an aggregated
version of the same data for Chicago's 343 neighborhood clusters as
defined by the Project on Human Development in Chicago's Neighborhoods.
Resources
| Name |
Format |
Description |
Link |
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0 |
ICPSR04079.v1 |
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04079.v1 |
Tags
- census-tract-level
- neighborhoods
- crime-patterns
- homicide