Research Article

Using Street View Images to Examine the Impact of Built Environment on Street Property Crimes in the Old District of CA City, China

Table 1

Descriptive statistics of dependent and independent variables.

Variable categoryVariablesMeanStd. dev.MinimumMaximumVIF

Dependent variablesNumber of crimes for whole day (0:00–23:59)1.612.43015
Number of crimes for before dawn (0:00–6:59)0.771.5909
Number of crimes for daytime (7:00–17:59)0.581.0405
Number of crimes for nighttime (18:00–23:59)0.270.6504

Street view variablesGreenness (%)0.160.0900.362.68
Road coverage (%)0.220.0800.362.70
Closeness (%)0.040.0300.181.48
Openness (%)0.050.0500.282.32

Formal social control variablesDistance to the nearest police patrol station/km0.230.120.010.531.23
Police camera2.301.65091.36

Built-environment variablesRestaurant9.0511.110532.37
Bubble tea and cafe1.522.370141.61
Convenience store3.152.880121.99
Grocery store1.082.750211.38
Bank0.240.58041.14
Bar1.252.380151.34