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        Through the emerging hotspot analysis, changing spatiotemporal patterns of vehicle theft, residential and commercial break-and-enters, as well as for property crime more broadly were observed. From the MaxEnt models, significant differences in the importance of a number of socioeconomic variables for predicting property crime in Vancouver were identified. A common thread found through the examination of both of these models was the existence of explicable socioeconomic and spatiotemporal trends through various techniques. Future research should focus on building on the methodology constructed in this study, and refining it through the incorporation of more target predictive variables that can be defined in more rigorous ways. Socioeconomic deprivation, geographic profiling, transportation networks and population densities each represent a potentially fruitful avenue for exploring the patterns observed.

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