Professional Sports and Crime: Do Professional Hockey Games Increase City-Level Crime Rates?

2021 ◽  
pp. 001112872110104
Author(s):  
Kristina Block
Keyword(s):  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Professional Sports ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Ice Hockey ◽  
National Hockey League ◽  
Motor Vehicle Theft ◽  
Crime Data ◽  
Property Crimes ◽  
Future Work ◽  
The Relationship

Previous research has found that sports games increase certain crimes including theft and vandalism, but the relationship between sports and other offenses such as motor vehicle theft, robbery, and assaults is mixed. Using regular season National Hockey League (NHL) game data and city-level, incident-level crime data from four large U.S. cities, this paper estimates if professional ice hockey games played at home is associated with increases in property crimes, alcohol-related crimes, and assaults during and right after games the over course of four NHL seasons. Results show that NHL games lead to small but significant increases in property crimes and assaults. There is no significant effect for alcohol-related crimes. Implications and suggestions for future work are discussed.

The influence of political and economic changes on macro-level property crime variation: The case of post-communist Central and Eastern Europe

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 526-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet P Stamatel
Keyword(s):  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Property Crime ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Motor Vehicle Theft ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Property Crimes ◽  
Domestic Burglary ◽  
Eastern European Countries

The goal of this article was to assess the extent to which major changes in the political and economic systems of Central and Eastern European countries after the fall of communism contributed to variations in property crime rates, controlling for other structural predictors. Data for 17 countries from 1990–2003 were collected for three types of property crimes: total theft; motor vehicle theft; and domestic burglary. Traditional predictors derived from modernization and routine activities theories produced inconsistent results, but political and economic changes due to the post-communist transformations were significant predictors of property crime variation. Economic changes toward liberalization, marketization, and privatization were strongly, positively related to higher property crime rates across all three types. Political changes toward democratization were only positively related to higher domestic burglary rates. The control variables were weak and inconsistent predictors of all three property crimes. The article discusses some of the implications of these findings for updating macro-level crime theories.

scholarly journals Did Crime Rates Rise After Colorado Legalized Marijuana?

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-7
Author(s):  
Abigail D. Pohl ◽  
Samuel W. Klockenkemper ◽  
Lucas G. Carpinello ◽  
Paul M. Sommers
Keyword(s):  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Motor Vehicle Theft ◽  
Trend Line ◽  
Vehicle Theft ◽  
Aggravated Assault ◽  
Crime Reports

Using monthly crime reports from Denver’s Police Department between January 2010 and December 2014, the authors endeavor to show if there was a break in the trend line of seven different crimes (homicide, rape, aggravated assault, burglary, robbery, larceny, and motor vehicle theft) following Colorado’s legalization of marijuana in late 2012.  After adjusting for seasonal components (some crimes tend to be higher in summer months), the trend lines reveal no break for crimes against persons.  But, three of the four trend lines for crimes against property do reveal a significant decrease after legalization.

Aggression as a Potential Mediator of the Home Advantage in Professional Ice Hockey

1992 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
E J. McGuire ◽  
Kerry S. Courneya ◽  
W. Neil Widmeyer ◽  
Albert V. Carron
Keyword(s):  
Potential Role ◽  
Ice Hockey ◽  
National Hockey League ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Potential Mediator ◽  
Home Advantage ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

Little research has been conducted on the role of various behaviors in contributing to the home advantage in sport competitions. The present study investigated whether player aggression mediated the relationship between game location and performance in professional ice hockey. Based on the subject-defined delineation between aggressive and nonaggressive ice hockey penalties established by Widmeyer and Birch, 13 measures were used on data collected from the official game reports and penalty records of the National Hockey League for the 1987–1988 season. Both macroanalytic and microanalytic research strategies and analyses were employed. Initial analysis revealed that home teams won 58.3% of the decided games. Further analyses showed a significant interaction between game location and performance. Home teams incurred more aggressive penalties in games they won whereas visiting teams incurred more aggressive penalties in games they lost. Implications for the potential role of aggression in contributing to the home advantage are discussed.

scholarly journals TRENDS KRIMINAL DI PEKANBARU 2012-2016

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-19
Author(s):  
Syahrul Akmal Latief ◽  
Fakhri Usmita ◽  
Riky Novarizal
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Motor Vehicle Theft ◽  
Vehicle Theft ◽  
Wheeled Vehicles ◽  
Criminal Statistics

The least   availability of criminal data for the community, makes it difficult to get a picture of the crime. This study aims to illustrate the trend of crime in Pekanbaru City in 2012-2016 by using a quantitative alignment in view of  police criminal statistics in Pekanbaru. This study focuses on eight criminal acts, namely: theft of two-wheeled vehicles, theft by weight, maltreatment, narcotics abuse, embezzlement, domestic violence, motor vehicle theft, and deprivation. The results of this study indicate a fluctuation of crime rates for eight crimes under investigation. The crime total reached in 2014 was 928 cases, and relatively decreased for the following years. The average trend of increasing or decreasing crime amounted to 19.5 cases per year.

scholarly journals The absence of fans removes the home advantage associated with penalties called by National Hockey League referees

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. e0256568
Author(s):  
Joël Guérette ◽  
Caroline Blais ◽  
Daniel Fiset
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Professional Sports ◽  
Ice Hockey ◽  
National Hockey League ◽  
Ecological Context ◽  
Home Team ◽  
Home Advantage ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Post Hoc ◽  
New Evidence

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on professional sports, notably, forcing the National Hockey League to hold its 2020 playoffs in empty arenas. This provided an unprecedented opportunity to study how crowds may influence penalties awarded by referees in an ecological context. Using data from playoff games played during the COVID-19 pandemic and the previous 5 years (n = 547), we estimate the number of penalties called by referees depending on whether or not spectators were present. The results show an interaction between a team’s status (home; away) and the presence or absence of crowds. Post-hoc analyses reveal that referees awarded significantly more penalties to the away team compared to the home team when there is a crowd present. However, when there are no spectators, the number of penalties awarded to the away and home teams are not significantly different. In order to generalize these results, we took advantage of the extension of the pandemic and the unusual game setting it provided to observe the behavior of referees during the 2020–2021 regular season. Again, using data from the National Hockey League (n = 1639), but also expanding our sample to include Canadian Hockey League games (n = 1709), we also find that the advantage given to the home team by referees when in front of a crowd fades in the absence of spectators. These findings provide new evidence suggesting that social pressure does have an impact on referees’ decision-making, thus contributing to explain the phenomenon of home advantage in professional ice hockey.

The Relationship between Economic Hardship and Crime: The Case of Israel and the Palestinians

2005 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Herzog
Keyword(s):  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Economic Hardship ◽  
Motor Vehicle Theft ◽  
Positive Relation ◽  
Significant Positive Relationship ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Unique Framework ◽  
The Relationship

Numerous theories of crime posit a positive relation between economic hardship and crime, among them rational choice, strain, anomie, social control, and even neo-Marxist models. The present study focuses on the unique framework provided by the large integrated labor force of Palestinian workers employed in Israel over the past few decades. The study was based on time-series analysis of a restricted time period characterized by severe economic hardship among Palestinians due to loss of employment in Israel and increases of crime rates in Israel. A significant positive relationship between economic hardship among Palestinians and property and general crime in Israel was not found; however, a significant positive relationship was obtained in the specific case of motor vehicle theft. The implications of the findings are discussed.

scholarly journals Do Larger Cities Experience Lower Crime Rates? A Scaling Analysis of 758 Cities in the U.S.

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 3111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Sang Chang ◽  
Hann Earl Kim ◽  
Seongmin Jeon
Keyword(s):  
Population Size ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Scaling Analysis ◽  
Property Crimes ◽  
Scaling Relationship ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Crime Counts ◽  
The Relationship

Do larger cities still suffer from higher crime rates? The scaling relationship between the number of crimes and the population size for the maximum of 758 cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants in the United States from 1999 to 2014 was analyzed. For the total group of cities, the relationship is superlinear for both violent and property crimes. However, for the subgroups of the top 12, top 24, and top 50 largest cities, the relationship changes to sublinear for both violent and property crimes. Results from the panel data analysis are in support of these findings. Along with population size, income per capita and population density also influence the outcome of crime counts. Implications from these findings will be discussed.

scholarly journals UPAYA PENANGGULANGAN TINDAK PIDANA PENCURIAN KENDARAAN BERMOTOR ANTARA HARAPAN DAN KENYATAAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pratiwi Ayu Sri Daulat
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Title Page ◽  
Motor Vehicle Theft ◽  
Vehicle Theft ◽  
High Crime ◽  
Short Time

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>The issue of the implementation of criminal law and crime prevention efforts is quite important for a country that wants a rule of law. Crimes that tend to increase are influenced by the coming of a multidimensional crisis. This has the potential to cause increasingly high crime rates in the community, for example motor vehicle theft has increased from year to year. Crimes committed are organized and neat enough to complicate the authorities in this case the police in uncovering cases of motorized theft. From the description above, the police try to prevent and tackle cases of motorized theft by pre-emptive, preventive and repressive measures, as an example of the causes of theft cases many factors including negligence by owners, perpetrators, and the community and there is no safety key so the perpetrator easily steals for a short time. </span></p></div></div></div>

scholarly journals The Effect of Community Gardens on Property Crime Rates in Inner City Houston

HortScience ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 1136C-1136
Author(s):  
Michelle Gorham ◽  
Tina M. Waliczek
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Property Crime ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Community Garden ◽  
Crime Data ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Property Crimes ◽  
Houston Police Department

Today, in many of America's major cities, communal gardening projects have not only yielded produce to their participants, but also a plethora of neighborhood success stories, including feelings of wellbeing, safety, and the beautification of acres of vacant land. According to anecdotal evidence, the presence of a community garden can connect people to the earth, nature, and each other, as well as reduce crime. The purpose of this study was to determine if a relationship existed between reported property crimes and the presence of inner city community gardens in Houston, Texas. According to the Houston Police Department, property crimes include vandalism, breaking and entering, and burglary. Crime data for reported property crimes from 1995 through 2004 were obtained from the Houston Police Department. The Houston Police Department divides the city into “beats” and property crime rates were determined for each beat. At least one active community garden was targeted for each police beat. Results for the study compared crime rates within a 1/8-mile radius surrounding the community garden and the property crime rate for the entire police beat. In addition to the evaluation of crime data, community garden members were surveyed for thoughts and opinions pertinent to the presence of their particular community garden.

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