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Breetzke, Gregory Dennis
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Corcoran, Jonathan
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dc.date.accessioned |
2024-10-16T13:08:27Z |
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dc.date.available |
2024-10-16T13:08:27Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2024 |
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dc.description |
DATA AVAILABILITY :
The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. |
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dc.description |
CODE AVAILABILITY :
Available on request. |
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dc.description.abstract |
Cross-national studies examining the relationship between weather and crime are rare. Reasons are manifold but include the differences in countries due to geographical, climatic, and seasonal variations. In contrast in this study we examine the causal impact of temperature and rainfall anomalies on violent crime in locations located in two comparable geographic zones: Khayelitsha (in South Africa) and Ipswich (in Australia). We use ANOVA and Tukey’s tests to identify statistical meaningful differences (if any) in the impact of these weather anomalies on crime alongside the use of visualisations capturing the anomalous weather-violence relationship in these two contexts. Results show some similarities but also notable differences between locations which we attribute to their inherent socio-demographic differences which we expand upon. We conclude by highlighting the benefits of cross-national crime research, and motivate for its increased application in future research of this nature. |
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dc.description.department |
Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology |
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dc.description.librarian |
hj2024 |
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dc.description.sdg |
SDG-13:Climate action |
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dc.description.sponsorship |
Open access funding provided by University of Pretoria. |
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dc.description.uri |
https://link.springer.com/journal/484 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Breetzke, G., Corcoran, J. The impact of weather anomalies on violence in the coastal mid-latitudes: a cross-national comparison. International Journal of Biometeorology (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-024-02762-x. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0020-7128 (print) |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1432-1254 (online) |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.1007/s00484-024-02762-x |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/98626 |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
Springer |
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dc.rights |
© The Author(s) 2024. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. |
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dc.subject |
Violent crime |
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dc.subject |
Temperature |
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dc.subject |
Rainfall |
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Khayelitsha |
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dc.subject |
Ipswich |
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dc.subject |
SDG-13: Climate action |
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dc.title |
The impact of weather anomalies on violence in the coastal mid-latitudes : a cross-national comparison |
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dc.type |
Article |
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