The Correlation Between Crime Rates and Weather Patterns in Northern Brooklyn During 2012

Master's Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Sociology - Law, Delinquency, Abnormal Behavior, grade: 1.0, City University of New York John Jay College of Criminal Justice, language: English, abstract: There has been a longstanding debate as to whether or not temperature affects the influx or decrease of violent crimes and crimes against property.

This project adopts a retrospective and longitudinal approach to examine the association between weather patterns and crime rates in northern Brooklyn in 2012.

Archival weekly time series is used from the National Weather Service, the New York City Police Department (NYPD), and the Department of Labor in this secondary data analysis. Results are analyzed and a determination made to see whether temperature and precipitation and crime have a statistically significant relationship and whether the relationship is positive or negative.