Urban forestry & urban greening • Vol 101
Rethinking the association between green space and crime using spatial quantile regression modelling: Do vegetation type, crime type, and crime rates matter?
September 2024 • Ruoyu Wang, Claire Cleland, Ruth Weir, Sally McManus, Agustina Martire, George Grekousis, Dominic Bryan, Ruth F. Hunter
UN Sustainable Development Goals (e.g., Goal 16) have highlighted the importance of using policy tools (e.g., through urban planning) to prevent crimes. Existing evidence of the association between green space and crime is mixed. Some studies indicate that the inconsistencies may be due to the variance in types of vegetation and the rates of crime reported across regions and countries. This study aims to assess the conditional association between green space and crime by considering the influence of vegetation typ…