TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - In a world called catastrophe: the impact of COVID-19 on neighbourhood level crime in Vancouver, Canada
JO  - Journal of experimental criminology
A1  - Andresen, Martin A.
A1  - Hodgkinson, Tarah
SP  - 487
EP  - 511
VL  - 19
IS  - 2
N2  - OBJECTIVES    To test for statistically significant change in crime rates across neighbourhoods in Vancouver, Canada, resulting from social restrictions within the natural experiment of the COVID-19 pandemic.     Methods    Differential local Moran's I is used to identify statistically significant change in crime patterns across Vancouver's neighbourhoods because of COVID-19. These changes are analysed with variables from social disorganization theory constructs using ANOVA.     Results    At the neighbourhood level, all crime types have significant change during COVID, but not always at the city level. Different neighbourhoods have different changes in crime despite these changes appearing to be constant at the city level; local effects asre important to consider. Variables representing the constructs of social disorganization theory are able to predict these changes.     Conclusions    COVID-19 has changed the patterns of crime in Vancouver, but most often in theoretically expected ways. Local changes are critical to understand crime during a pandemic.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1573-3750
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11292-021-09495-6
ID  - ref1
ER  -