Lattice Models for the analysis of Urban Crime

The spatial analysis of Urban Crime is generally made using crime mapping techniques, which are mainly representations of crime dispersion over a specific urban area without any statistical modelling of its dependence from the urban structure of the city or any group of socio-demographic variables. Using a set of measurements (called Space Syntax) based on a segmentation of all the roads of the topographic map of a city into axes and a set of socio-demographic variables, in this work a highly populated district of the City of Genoa has been analyzed, studying crime in the context in which it happens, interpreting the roads network as a graph or a lattice