Geographies of Urban Crime:
An Intraurban Study of
Crime in Nashville, TN
by Meagan Elizabeth Cahill
A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the
Department of Geography and Regional Development
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
For the Degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
In the Graduate College
The University of Arizona
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Table of Contents
List of Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
List of Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.1. Urban geographies of crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.2. Situating the research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1.3. Theorizing geographies of crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
1.3.1. Social control-disorganization . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 20
1.3.2. Routine activities theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
1.3.3. Multicontextual criminal opportunity theory . . . .. . . 45
1.3.4. Application of the theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
1.3.5. Format of the dissertation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Chapter 2. Present Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
2.1. A Review of the Cities Under Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
2.2. Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
2.3. A global model of crime? Composing and decomposing interurban models of crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
2.4. Alternative measures of crime and crime profiles . . . . 72
2.5. Geographically weighted regression in ecological studies of crime 74
2.6. Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Appendix A. A global model of crime? Composing and decomposing
interurban models of crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Appendix B. Alternative measures of crime and crime profiles 128
Appendix C. Geographically weighted regression in ecological studies of crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
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