Relationships between crime and Twitter activity around stadiums

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

10-30-2017

Abstract

Research shows that public events can be violence attractors or generators. Recent studies focus on the effect of crowd events on spatial crime analysis, using environmental criminology theories as a background. Also, social media analyses show possible influences of social media in crowd movements. This study displays and correlates spatial patterns of crimes and tweets around two stadiums in Manchester, United Kingdom. Moreover, text analysis of tweets is used for extracting violent tweets. For this study the data used are: aggregated monthly crime data analyzed for 2km around the two stadiums and geo-located tweets for the same study area. Spatial interpolation and spatial statistics are used to determine relationships between datasets. Results show differentiated influence of Twitter data on crime for the two stadiums, benefits of using tweets subsets, and they also support the importance of using disaggregated crime types.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

International Conference on Geoinformatics

Number

536

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