Estimating the effects of crime maps on house prices using an (Un)natural experiment: A study protocol.

Street-level crime maps are publicly available online in England and Wales. However, there was initial resistance to the publication of such fine-grained crime statistics, which can lower house prices and increase insurance premiums in high crime neighbourhoods. Identifying the causal effect of public crime statistics is difficult since crime statistics generally mirror actual crime.

Modifiable temporal unit problem (MTUP) and its effect on space-time cluster detection.

Background: When analytical techniques are used to understand and analyse geographical events, adjustments to the datasets (e.g. aggregation, zoning, segmentation etc.