Neighbourhood characteristics and the distribution of crime in Winnipeg : Caractéristiques des quartiers et répartition de la criminalité à Winnipeg

The results of the analysis are presented in the second part, and part three presents a discussion of the major findings and some of the limitations of this demonstration study. [...] The location of clusters of violent and property incidents or “hot spots” (indicated by the darkest red colour) are displayed in Maps 6 and 7. The first map displays more clearly that those areas with the highest relative densities of violent crime are in the urban core and to the north. [...] Map 8 displays the combination of the distribution of property incidents and residential population alone; while Map 9 shows the combination of property incidents with the ‘population at risk’ which includes both the residential and employed populations in each NCA (see Text Box 2).8 These maps point to important differences in the distribution of reported criminal activity across the City. [...] The spatial distributions differ depending on the time of day, with variation in both the amount of crime and also in the location of the highest crime density areas or ‘hot spots’ identified by the darkest red colour. [...] Disadvantage is followed in importance by the relative contribution of the condition of housing in the neighbourhood, indicated by the proportion of dwellings in need of major repairs (b=0.25 and b=0.40).