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Urban Spatial Disorganization and Crime: Punctate Distribution Pattern

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Criminal and deviant behavior is one of the prominent manifestations of social disorganization . Study on the spatial distribution features of crime has a direct indicating function for our understanding of social disorganization, especially urban spatial structural disorganization (Chen et al. in Secur J 26:1–15, 2013). In the following analysis, the author will use the collected data about crime, population, and the environment to make a preliminary exploration of spatial distribution characteristics of criminal and deviant behaviors and spatial structural disorganization in Guangzhou City.

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  1. International Institution of Criminal Justice, Southwest University of Politic Science and Law, Chongqing, China

    Haiyan Xiong

  2. Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Haiyan Xiong

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Xiong, H. (2016). Urban Spatial Disorganization and Crime: Punctate Distribution Pattern. In: Urban Crime and Social Disorganization in China. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-859-5_4

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