Nature of Residential Burglary and Prevention by Design Approaches in a Nigerian Traditional Urban Center

Badiora, Adewumi Israel; Oluwadare, Deborah Bunmi; Dada, Olanrewaju Timothy

doi:10.1080/19361610.2014.942823

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“…Since there are no such data in the sixth census report of China, the percentage of large households which have an area greater than 120 m 2 was used as a proxy for the household income instead. The level of education measures the variation in the education structure of the crime-prone population, but its impact was found to be mixed in the literature [14,58].…”

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“…Income has been selected as the attractiveness for offenders in the literature since the motived criminals want to obtain as much as possible through a burglary [35,58]. Since there are no such data in the sixth census report of China, the percentage of large households which have an area greater than 120 m 2 was used as a proxy for the household income instead.…”

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Modeling Spatial Effect in Residential Burglary: A Case Study from ZG City, China

Chen

Liu

Zhou

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Abstract:The relationship between burglary and socio-demographic factors has long been a hot topic in crime research. Spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity are two issues to be addressed in modeling geographic data. When these two issues arise at the same time, it is difficult to model them simultaneously. A cross-comparison of three models is presented in this study to identify which spatial effect should be addressed first in crime analysis. The negative binominal model (NB), Bayesian hierarchical model (BHM) and the geographically weighted Poisson regression model (GWPR) were implemented based on a three-year residential burglary data set from ZG, China. The modeling result shows that both BHM and GWPR outperform NB as they capture either of the spatial effects. Compared to the NB model, the mean absolute deviation (MAD) of BHM and GWPR was decreased by 83.71% and 49.39%, the mean squared error (MSE) of BHM and GWPR was decreased by 97.88% and 77.15%, and the R 2 d of BHM and GWPR was improved by 26.7% and 19.1%, respectively. In comparison with BHM and GWPR, BHM fits the data better with lower MAD, MSE and higher R 2 d . The empirical analysis indicates that the percentage of renter population, percentage of people from other provinces, bus line density, and bus stop density have a significantly positive impact on the number of residential burglaries. The percentage of residents with a bachelor degree or higher, on the other hand, is negatively associated with the number of residential burglaries.

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Modeling Spatial Effect in Residential Burglary: A Case Study from ZG City, China

Chen

Liu

Zhou

et al. 2017

IJGI

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“…Robbery, theft, stealing, and vandalism were among important property crime as well. This situation is influenced by the environmental design factors, specifically night-time conditions and the absence of capable guidance and/or the presence of the opportunity to commit crime that accord a sense of ease to the criminals to act against their intended targets (Badiora et al, 2014). It should be noted therefore, that the crime types that involve residential properties are the ones that involve house break-ins.…”

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“…Assessment of perception of Realtors and tenants are equally as important because the concept of CPTED requires social interaction in determining its effectiveness toward crime prevention (Cozens et al, 2005). Furthermore, Badiora et al (2014) and Badiora (2016) measure perceived effectiveness of all the CPTED components in their researches in Nigerian residential area. However, there were differences in terms of the CPTED components and the selection of residential areas.…”

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“…The above opinions were somewhat, shared by both the realtors and tenants as averages computed for daytime break-ins were higher than that of night-time break-ins. This may be because daytime is usually the period when houses in residential estates (such as the study area) are likely to be unoccupied (Badiora et al, 2014). This therefore gives an indication that burglars try to avoid contact with residents and/or any form of human presence.…”

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Residential property and break-ins

Badiora

Adebara

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine realtors and residents’ perceptions of the effectiveness of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) in reducing night-time and daytime break-ins in residential estate. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted case study methods. Two residential estates (one at inner and the other at outer city) were selected as cases of the study. Data were collected from two sets of respondents: realtors and tenants. In the realtors’ cluster, all real estate and property development companies were sampled since the population is very small. Systematic sampling technique was used to select residents. Respondents were asked to answer closed-ended questions on socio-economic and demographic characteristics, perception of property crime, spending on CPTED and effectiveness of CPTED. Data were analyzed using the descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings Findings disclose that more than half of the residents of inner and outer city had been victims of housebreaks and these incidences are expected to increase in the nearest future. To reduce break-ins, findings show that realtors and residents have spent on both formal and informal surveillance with emphasis on ensuring visual control over premises. Furthermore, respondents confirm the effectiveness of CPTED in deterring break-ins. The study establishes variation in the realtors and tenants’ perception of break-ins as spending on CPTED strategies vary between them, with locations and types of properties. Practical implications Social and human factors remain very important as far as the prevention of break-ins is concerned. These should be taken into considerations when improving CPTED approach in the future. Besides, adequate attentions should be given to daytime break-in. Nonetheless, night-time break-ins should not be neglected. Furthermore, the study emphasizes the importance of visible, clean and well-lit premises as ways of reducing break-ins. It is therefore suggested that residential properties should be well lit at nights, while CCTV and security personnel be positioned in strategic places and within security viewing range so as to send fast alerts to the nearest police stations in the cases of break-in(s). Originality/value Very few studies on effectiveness of CPTED have mainly concentrated on how CPTED works in residential estates. No study till date, have explored how realtors perceive CPTED in preventing break-ins. Besides, this study contributes to existing literature having revealed variation in the realtors and tenants’ spending on CPTED on the basis of property location and types of residential properties.

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Nature of Residential Burglary and Prevention by Design Approaches in a Nigerian Traditional Urban Center

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Modeling Spatial Effect in Residential Burglary: A Case Study from ZG City, China

Modeling Spatial Effect in Residential Burglary: A Case Study from ZG City, China

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