ArticleJournal of experimental criminology2021
Measuring the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on crime in a medium-sized city in China.
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- Effects of Pandemic Response Measures on Crime Counts in English and Welsh Local Authorities.Applied spatial analysis and policy · 2025Article
- How the COVID-19 pandemic hit crime in Barcelona: Analysis of variation in crime trends.European journal of criminology · 2023Article
- The Impact of Urban Facilities on Crime during the Pre- and Pandemic Periods: A Practical Study in Beijing.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Empirical evidence of the impact of mobility on property crimes during the first two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic.Humanities & social sciences communications · 2022Article
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Abstract
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objectivesThe study examines the variation in the daily incidence of eight acquisitive crimes: automobile theft, electromobile theft, motorcycle theft, bicycle theft, theft from automobiles, pickpocketing, residential burglary, and cyber-fraud before the lockdown and the duration of the lockdown for a medium-sized city in China.
methodsRegression discontinuity in time (RDiT) models are used to test the effect of the lockdown measures on crime by examining the daily variation of raw counts and rate.
resultsIt is indicated that in contrast to numerous violent crime categories such as domestic violence where findings have repeatedly found increases during the COVID-19 pandemic, acquisitive crimes in this city were reduced during the lockdown period for all categories, while "cyber-fraud" was found more resilient in the sense that its decrease was not as salient as for most other crime types, possibly due to people's use of the internet during the lockdown period.
conclusionsThe findings provide further support to opportunity theories of crime that are contingent upon the need for a motivated offender to identify a suitable target in physical space.
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