Essay On Robberies And Hotels

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Statement of the research question
Hotels are a place of business that provides a small type of living for customers who temporarily stay. It is occupied mainly of visitors to areas where while staying at a hotel they do whatever they have come to do such as tourism, visiting friends and relatives, business, or vacation. Robbery is a crime involving the forceful taking of an individual’s property through violence or intimidation. What would be important to the area is the spatial relationship between the crime and the place, that being robberies and hotels. The spatial relationship means the distance between the two. This is important because it would show whether robberies are in a dangerous proximity to hotels and bring concerns to the safety …show more content…

The book known as Place Matters written by several criminologists such as Weisburd has mentioned “opportunity perspectives” when establishing the basis of crime and place. Weisburd et al (2016) mentions how offenders would choose a specific target based on the time, place, and method. It mentions how “opportunity theorists contend that people operate within a rational choice framework” (Weisburd et al, 2016, pp. 44). It also states how offenders select targets within a large geographical area, in this research, the city of Fairfax would count as a large geographical area. Weisburd et al (2016) states that when it comes to crime pattern theory, offenders would follow “basic routines” that must do with coming to and from destinations, labeled as nodes, and paths. What is trying to be said is that “offender knowledge and routines structure their hunting” (Weisburd et al, 2016, pp. 45). Weisburd et al (2016) also give solutions when it comes preventing crime such as situational crime prevention which requires more hard work. This would also include another literature that explains spatial risk assessment by Caplan, Kennedy, Barnum, and …show more content…

Datasets of retails, bars, schools, churches, and recreational areas were also used to determine the likelihood of a robbery to take place. For the crime data, since robberies were the focus, the robberies were highlighted and exported as points on the map with the rest of the crime data removed to only show robberies. For hotel data sets, first the addresses of all hotels were listed on a spreadsheet followed by each hotels’ coordinates within the city. Then the spreadsheet was added to the map as a data set and turned into a shapefile that appears on the map. The techniques used to establish the spatial relationship between hotels and robberies was through the spatial analysis tools. This would be done using Euclidean Distancing to determine the distance correlation on how far robberies occur just around hotels and beyond the path its’ occupants and employees take. It is then broken up into 5 classes with class 1 being in proximity to the hotels and class 5 being the

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