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                            Funding & Awards
 Crime in Metropolitan America: Patterns and Trends across the SouthernCalifornia Landscape
Award Information
Awardee
              The Regents of the University of California
Award #
              2012-R2-CX-0010
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    Irvine, CA
Congressional District
              45
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2012
Total funding (to date)
              $560,620
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 12 Research and Evaluation on Metropolitan Crime
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2012, $560,620)
The purpose of this study is to combine and collect data from a large number of sources to study crime and crime trends across the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan area.  This wide array of information will allow accounting for the multi-dimensional and inter-related sources of crime and crime trends in Southern California at different units of analysis including blocks and neighborhoods.
Using this data, UCI will 1) build a model to predict crime in small geographic areas; 2) assess the effect of ex-offenders in an age of mass incarceration and the issues surrounding the implementation of realignment in California; 3) examine the clustering of social problems; 4) assess the effect of neighborhood organizations and institutions on crime trends;  5) determine the effect of the spatial distribution of poverty (at both small and large scales) on crime rates; 6) test the impact of concentrated affluence and whether clustering of low income housing increases crime; 7) examine the effect of gentrification on crime in neighborhoods and nearby areas; 8) consider the relationship between immigration and crime, taking into account the neighborhood institutional context; and will 9) assess the effect of foreclosures and vacancies on neighborhood home values and crime over time.
The data for this project includes crime, offender supervision, business and employment, socio-demographic data, government expenditures, health, housing, locations of neighborhood institutions, land use, schooling, and weather.    The analysis plan includes Poisson models that include an estimation of population effects.  If over-dispersion is encountered, the research team will estimate negative binomial regression models.  All estimations will directly model spatial processes.  UCI will construct spatial weight matrices to determine the appropriate distance decay to model nearby areas.  The analysis will also assess the impact of geographic characteristics on crime longitudinally, through cross-lagged or latent trajectory models. ca/ncf



  
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                      Improving or declining: What are the consequences for changes in local crime?
                  Drugs, Crime, Space, and Time: A Spatiotemporal Examination of Drug Activity and Crime Rates
                  A Typological Approach to Studying Policing
                  Explaining the temporal and spatial dimensions of robbery: Differences across measures of the physical and social environment
                  The Effect of the Physical Environment on Crime Rates: Capturing Housing Age and Housing Type at Varying Spatial Scales
                  Using Social Media to Measure Temporal Ambient Population: Does it Help Explain Local Crime Rates?
                  Using Social Media To Measure Temporal Ambient Population: Does It Help Explain Local Crime Rates?
                  What Came First: the Police or the Incident? Bidirectional Relationships Between Police Actions and Police Incidents
                  Physical Boundaries and City Boundaries: Consequences for Crime Patterns on Street Segments?
                  A Block-Level Analysis of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries and Crime in the City of Los Angeles
                  Do Fringe Banks Create Fringe Neighborhoods? Examining the Spatial Relationship Between Fringe Banking and Neighborhood Crime Rates

  
Date Created: August 29, 2012
    
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