Canadian Policing Research Catalogue

Patterns of crime in Canadian cities : a multivariate statistical analysis / Kwing Hung, Chi Nguyen.

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Alternate Title

Profil de la criminalité dans les villes : analyse statistique multidimensionnelle.

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1 online resource (vii, 84 pages) : charts

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Issued also in French under title: Profil de la criminalité dans les villes : analyse statistique multidimensionnelle.
"2002"--Title page.

Summary

"The following study used multivariate statistical techniques to analyze offence specific crime rates reported by the police in the aggregate Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR1). The objective was to summarize the large amount of data on offences reported by the police in 1999 to the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Statistics Canada into generalized patterns of crime. The results show that the statistical analysis was successful in representing the crime patterns of 600 cities across Canada by four crime indices for each city. Such information could be used to pinpoint crime problems for individual cities and would be helpful in assisting local criminal justice agencies to develop crime control and prevention strategies for their specific areas."--Page vii.

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Contents

Section1. Introduction -- Section 2. Methodology -- Table 1. Distribution of cities in this study -- Table 2. Offence categories -- Section 3. Components of crime -- Table 3. Factor loadings of the four crime components -- Section 4. Crime patterns of individual cities -- Section 5. Crime profiles for different regions -- Table 4. Results of discriminant analysis of four geographical regions -- Table 5. Average factor scores of the four geographical regions -- Section 6. Crime profiles for different city sizes -- Table 6. Results of discriminant analysis of four city size classes -- Table 7. Average factor scores of the four city size classes -- Section 7. Summary and policy implications -- Table 8. Summary of crimes by the two classification schemes -- Appendix 1. An illustration on the difficulty of describing a crime pattern -- Appendix 2. Factor scores for four crime components of 600 cities -- Appendix 3. Factor score percentiles for four crime components of 600 cities -- Appendix 4. Reclassified cities based on the regional classification scheme -- Appendix 5. Reclassified cities based on the city size classification scheme -- Appendix 6. Mean crime rates by city size (per 100,000 population).

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