英文摘要 |
Theft is a common crime. The occurrence of theft has the highest percentage among crimes world-wide. Among all types of theft, motor vehicle theft has the highest rate in Taiwan. Crime analysis with spatial heterogeneity and spatial autocorrelation could provide better spatial reasoning of the crimes, than simply deriving quantitative statistics with administrative units. This study investigates the theft of motorbikes in Taoyuan metropolitan area through mapping the locations of reported theft. Based on the Geographic Information System, both macro and micro approaches were conducted. The former was carried out with a choropleth map to delineate the spatial distribution of the general trend. The latter applied kernel density function to generate maps of criminal hotspots. Global spatial autocorrelation analysis is conducted to evaluate whether there are clustered spatial patterns. Then, local spatial autocorrelation is utilized to derive the hotspot and identify both long-term motorbike theft hotspots and recently developed potential hotspots. |