Rating places and crime prevention : exploring user-generated ratings to assess place management Universiteit Gent
This study assesses how the quality of place management (measured with user-generated ratings from Google Places) is related to crime occurrences at specific settings and whether specific crime types are related to specific types of places. In 50 randomly sampled neighborhoods in Ghent (Belgium) and London (United Kingdom), we analyzed Google Places data as a proxy measure for the quality of place management at the street segment level. We used ...