This dataset is a record of spatial locations of crimes
reported in the period 25 April to 8 May 2002,
in an area of Chicago (Illinois, USA)
close to the University of Chicago.
The original crime map was published in the
Chicago Weekly News in 2002.
The data give the spatial location (street address) of each crime report,
and the type of crime. The type labels are interpreted as follows:
assault |
battery/assault |
burglary |
burglary |
cartheft |
motor vehicle theft |
damage |
criminal damage |
robbery |
robbery |
theft |
theft |
All crimes occurred on or near a street. The data give the
coordinates of all streets in the survey area, and their connectivity.
The dataset chicago
is an object of class "lpp"
representing a point pattern on a linear network.
See lpp
for further information on the format.
These data were published and analysed in
Ang, Baddeley and Nair (2012).