A commercially available crime index may be a reliable alternative to actual census-tract crime in an urban area

Health research on the effects of crime has been hampered by a lack of small-scale, reliable crime data. Our objective is to assess the accuracy of a set of commercially available crime indices for use in health research. The 2016 release of Applied Geographic Solutions’ (AGS) crime indices are base...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Claudia Nau, Margo Sidell, Kathryn Clift, Corinna Koebnick, Jay Desai, Deborah Rohm-Young
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-03-01
Series:Preventive Medicine Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211335519301676