Asylum seekers and neighbourhood crime: a spatial panel analysis
Computational Social Science seminar with Dr Wahideh Achbari
The Computational Social Science seminar series, organised in collaboration with the UvA Data Science Centre, features a new expert speaker every month. This month: Dr. Wahideh Achbari, Political Scientist and Lecturer of the Bachelor of Computational Social Science programme at UvA.
Event details of
Asylum seekers and neighbourhood crime: a spatial panel analysis
- Date
- 5 December 2023
- Time
- 12:00 -13:00
- Room
- D1.00
In this presentation, Wahideh will focus on unique longitudinal and geocoded Dutch crime data from 2010-2015 and the arrival of Asylum Reception Centres in the Netherlands. The results suggest that the presence or arrival of such centers in neighborhoods does not statistically significantly impact neighbourhood crime rates. Instead, Spatial Panel Models are employed to examine whether there is a potential shift in criminal activities to adjacent areas, possibly due to increased police surveillance or changes in informal social control within neighborhoods with asylum centres.
