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Crime and Neighborhood Characteristics
Track: Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice
Author(s): Qiang Xu, Yu Zhou

Compared with the national crime rate, the City of South Bend has an extraordinarily higher crime rate for crime against person and crime against property. This project is designed to have a longitudinal study of the patterns and trends of crime in South Bend from year 2000 to 2005 via tools of the Geographic Information System. Specifically, this project will examine geographic variations of crime over time, the relationship of different types of crime with neighborhood characteristics.

Qiang Xu
Indiana University, South Bend
School of Public and Environmental Affairs
School of Public and Environmental Affairs
South Bend , IN 46634-7111
US
Phone: 574-520-4592
E-mail: qiaxu@iusb.edu

Yu Zhou
Bowling Green State University
Department of Geography
Bowling Green , OH 43403
US
Phone: 419-372-7828
E-mail: yzhou@bgnet.bgsu.edu