Social scientists have long shown great interest in the spatial correlates of crime patterns. A subset of the literature has focused on how micro-level spatial factors influence the formation of crime hot spots. At the same time, tangential research has highlighted how neighborhood disadvantage influences crime occurrence. The current study first conducted a Risk Terrain Modelling analysis to identify spatial risk factors significantly related to MVT and MVR occurrence. It then tested whether the spatial influences of the criminogenic risk factors differed across traditional measures of neighborhood disadvantage. Findings suggest that although a citywide effect is evident for multiple risk factors, their spatial influence on crime significantly varied across neighborhood contexts. (publisher abstract modified)
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