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Journal Article
Crime Mapping and Analysis Using GIS in Kuwait
2022
Overview
Crime geography is a multidisciplinary field that examines the spatial distribution of crime. Studies involved in crime geography use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial statistics to create maps, identify hotspots and to explore relationships with other variables such as distribution of police stations. In Kuwait, there are only a few studies that have criminal behavior however, it is not clear if crime activities are associated with specific districts or if crime follows certain patterns. Therefore, the hypotheses are: (1) crime rates are higher in commercial districts and (2) the distribution of crime is random. These hypotheses were tested using GIS. Criminal records were classified into misdemeanors and felonies and distributed based on police stations. Hotspot analysis and inverse distance weighted (IDW) were used to identify hotspots and clusters. The results showed that hotspots occurred in most populated districts which corresponded to commercial districts populated by non- citizens. In addition, the pattern of crime followed a cluster distribution. Hence, only the first hypothesis was accepted. Possible explanations could be that commercial districts may be associated with other socio- economic activities that trigger criminal activities and less density of locations of police stations. Further studies should use global positioning systems instead of police stations.
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جامعة البحرين - كلية الآداب
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