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Spatial Analysis of Rare Crimes: Homicides in Chicago, Illinois, 1989-1991

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Principal Investigator(s): Bhati, Avinash Singh

Summary: This project's main goal was to develop an analytical framework that could be used for analysis of rare crimes observed at local (intra-city) levels of geographic aggregation. To demonstrate the application of this framework to a real-world issue, this project analyzed the occurrence of different types of homicide at both the census tract and neighborhood cluster level in Chicago. Homicide counts for Chicago's 865 census tracts for 1989-1991 were obtained from HOMICIDES IN CHICA... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04079.v1

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