The Relative Influence of Proximity to Fast Road Infrastructure, Accessibility, and Deprivation on Crime

Abstract

Irish rural areas saw an increase in the number of burglaries in the period following the completion of a network of high speed motorway interurban routes. To test the hypothesis that the new fast infrastructure was providing quick exits by urban based criminal gangs, Irish crime statistics along with census data were combined in a logistic regression analysis to assess the relative influence of accessibility, deprivation, population, and proximity to fast road infrastructure on the number of burglaries in areas. It was found that accessibility had a higher influence on crime than area deprivation and that proximity to fast road infrastructure was not significant.

Investigating Urban Crime Pattern and Accessibility Using Geographic Information System in Bandung City

“…The statistical test results, it's known that the Spearman correlation value or "p count" is higher than "p table" value with the level of 1 (one) percent significance who reach 0.418. It indicates the region with a high level of accessibility has higher crime risk than other and vice versa [23]. The relationship between accessibility and crime is shown in Figure 6.…”