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This document discusses spatial analyses of homicide rates using areal data. It begins with a brief history of how geography has been considered in criminology. Specifically, early researchers mapped crime rates across regions and searched for social covariates. Recently, interest has renewed in how space influences crime patterns. The document then discusses key methodological issues in analyzing aggregate areal data, including scale effects, heterogeneity of rates, and spatial autocorrelation. It conclude

Author

Nancy Lorena Gamboa

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EN