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55 Crime L. & Soc. Change 1 (2011)

handle is hein.journals/crmlsc55 and id is 1 raw text is: Crime Law Soc Change (2011) 55:1-13 DOI 10.1007/s10611-010-9264-3 Assessing temporal and weather influences on property crime in Beijing, China Chen Peng - Shu Xueming - Yuan Hongyong- Li Dengsheng Published online: 25 November 2010 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V 2010 Abstract Though the relationships between environment and crime have been studied a lot in many countries, this work is still a void in China. This work presents the study about how property crimes are influenced by the temporal and weather factors in China. With the crime data collected from police, the property crimes pattern by season of year, day of week and time of day are investigated firstly. Then the influence of the temporal variables-major holidays, school close days and weekends-and weather on the crimes are tested. The findings show that the robbery is significantly influenced by the temporal variables but has no correlations with weather, while burglary is not only affected by the temporal variables but also correlated with sun light hours. Introduction The relationship between environment and crime had been widely recognized and researched [7-11, 14, 16, 21], but little is known about how temporal and weather variations influence the crime patterns in China. In this article, there are several reasons for doing this research. First, most work about crime pattern research mainly focused on developed countries, very few work were devoted to the developing countries. Though Vdnia Ceccato assessed how Homicide varied by space and time in Brazil [3], the country's political regime is different from that in China. As the largest developing and socialism country in the world, China has its unique political regime and justice system. Many crimes in China have different definitions or classifications from those in other countries. So, studying the crime patterns in China will be interesting and maybe a complementary to the crime research. C. Peng (E) - S. Xueming - Y. Hongyong Engineering Physics Department, Tsinghua University, Room 1017, Liuqing Building, Beijing, China e-mail: p-chen07@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn L. Dengsheng Commanding Center, Beijing Municipal Public Safety Bureau, No. 9 Qianmen East Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China 4L Springer