eprintid: 10189598 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/18/95/98 datestamp: 2024-03-26 11:16:47 lastmod: 2024-03-26 11:16:47 status_changed: 2024-03-26 11:16:47 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Snaphaan, T creators_name: Hardyns, W creators_name: Pauwels, LJR creators_name: Bowers, K title: Rating places and crime prevention: Exploring user-generated ratings to assess place management ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F52 keywords: Big data, Crime concentrations, Google Places, Place management, Situational crime prevention note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: This study assesses how the quality of place management (measured with user-generated ratings from Google Places) is related to crime occurrences at specific settings and whether specific crime types are related to specific types of places. In 50 randomly sampled neighborhoods in Ghent (Belgium) and London (United Kingdom), we analyzed Google Places data as a proxy measure for the quality of place management at the street segment level. We used hurdle models to examine the effects for both the prevalence and frequency of crime at micro places, and to deal with excess zeros in the data. User-generated ratings of places provide a useful place-level indicator for place management that are related to crime. However, contextual differences are found between Ghent and London. For London, the results suggest that higher quality of place management has a protective effect on crime occurrences at the street segment level. This study indicates the importance of exploring new and emerging data sources as unique measurement opportunities to enhance insight in crime prevention mechanisms, and also acknowledges its limitations. For the first time from a large-scale empirical perspective, this study suggest that improving place management at specific places might be an effective intervention to guard against crime. date: 2024-04-01 date_type: published publisher: Elsevier BV official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2024.102088 full_text_type: other language: eng verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2256550 doi: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2024.102088 lyricists_name: Bowers, Kate lyricists_id: KBOWE16 actors_name: Bowers, Kate actors_id: KBOWE16 actors_role: owner full_text_status: restricted publication: Computers, Environment and Urban Systems volume: 109 article_number: 102088 issn: 0198-9715 citation: Snaphaan, T; Hardyns, W; Pauwels, LJR; Bowers, K; (2024) Rating places and crime prevention: Exploring user-generated ratings to assess place management. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems , 109 , Article 102088. 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2024.102088 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2024.102088>. document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10189598/1/2024_A1_Snaphaan%20et%20al_Rating%20places%20and%20crime%20prevention_AAM.pdf