Full Title
SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE
Publisher
FrancoAngeli
ISSN
0392-4939 (Printed Journal)
1971-8403 (Online Journal)
Journal Issue Number
129
Journal Issue Designation
129
Journal Issue Date
2022
Full Title
"Crime in the city": an analysis of the connections between crime, urban scale, and urban centrality
By (author)
First Page
90
Last Page
105
Language of text
English
Publication Date
2022/11
Copyright
2022 FrancoAngeli srl
Introduction or preface
This study analyses the connection between crime and the structural characteristics of mu-nicipalities. The first part compares the concentration of different crime types in the municipali-ties ranked by their population size across eight countries worldwide. The second part anal-yses the relationships between crime rates, urban scale and urban hierarchy among the Italian municipalities. The analysis suggests that both urban scale and hierarchy are relevant for un-derstanding crime rates.
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