印度各城市的经济不平等和犯罪:使用夜间灯光的证据数据数据
Christopher Kuruvilla Mathen1, Siddhartha Chattopadhyay1, Sohini Sahu2
1Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India.
PloS one
|August 11, 2025
概括
用夜间灯光数据衡量的经济不平等,显著增加了印度城市的犯罪率. 基于光的不平等率上升1%与总犯罪率上升0.5%相关,突出了差异和城市犯罪动态.
科学领域:
- 城市研究是城市研究.
- 犯罪学 犯罪学
- 遥感是一种远程传感.
背景情况:
- 经济不平等是众所周知的犯罪驱动因素,但印度城市级数据很少.
- 传统的经济指标往往无法在发展中国家的颗粒状城市层面上获得.
- 遥感数据为经济分析提供了潜在的替代方案.
研究的目的:
- 调查印度城市经济不平等与犯罪率之间的关系.
- 引入和验证夜间照明作为经济活动和不平等的代理.
- 评估不平等对各种犯罪类别的影响.
主要方法:
- 使用的夜间灯光数据来自Suomi国家极地轨道伙伴关系 (SNPP) 可见红外成像辐射仪套件 (VIIRS) 卫星.
- 采用动态面板数据模型对49个印度城市 (2016-2021) 进行分析.
- 研究了基于光的不平等与总,暴力和财产犯罪率之间的相关性.
主要成果:
- 基于夜间照明的不平等率增加1%与总犯罪率上升0.5%有关.
- 不平等与犯罪之间的积极关系在不同类型的犯罪中是一致的.
- 较高的定罪率显示,对总犯罪率有显著的威作用.
结论:
- 夜间照明为评估经济不平等及其与数据稀缺的城市环境中的犯罪联系提供了一种可行的方法.
- 经济差异,如光强度所示,是导致印度城市犯罪的一个重要因素.
- 有效的执法,由定罪率证明,在减轻犯罪方面发挥着至关重要的作用.
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