Track: Emergency Management and Public Safety
Using Atlas Pro To Analyze the Relationship Between Commercial Burglary and Land Use
Kenneth ClontzThis exploratory study empirically tests the assumptions of crime prevention through environmental design on the crime of commercial burglary. Few studies have pursued this subject. Therefore, this work explores the relationship between commercial burglary and environmental factors using both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Thirty-four independent variables are documented and empirically tested using logistic regression. The resulting data are also tested for interactions among the independent variables, something no other research has done. A major finding of this work is that mixed land use is a contributing factor in the risk of commercial burglary. Accessibility was also discovered to be significant. Accessibility, as a category, examines pedestrian and automobile traffic, types of front doors, and whether the windows are obstructed. The last category supports prior studies indicating obstructed windows increase the risk of crime. Another result of this research fails to find that automobile traffic plays any part in predicting crime.
Kenneth Clontz
Western Illinois University
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