Analyzing the relationship between air pollution and various types of crime

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255653
• Publication Date: 2021-08-13T17:32:42Z
• Authors: Pei-Fen Kuo; I. Gede Brawiswa ...
• Keywords: Depression

Air pollution has a severe impact on human physical and mental health. When the air quality is poor enough to cause respiratory irritation, people tend stay home avoid any outdoor activities. In addition, may health problems (depression anxiety) which were associated with high crime risk. Therefore, in this study, it hypothesized that increasing level higher indoor rates, but negatively rates because restricts people's daily Three types of crimes used for analysis: robbery (outdoor crime), domestic violence (indoor fraud (cybercrime). The results revealed geographically temporally weighted regression (GTWR) model performed best lower AIC values. general, population areas more pollution, local authorities should allocate resources, extra police officers, or training programs help them prevent violence, rather than focusing robbery.