Title Violent crime in Lithuania: trends and patterns in 2015–2020 /
Authors Beconytė, Giedrė ; Gružas, Kostas ; Govorov, Michael
DOI 10.5194/agile-giss-3-25-2022
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Is Part of AGILE: GIScience Series25th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science “Artificial Intelligence in the service of Geospatial Technologies” Vilnius, Lithuania, 14–17 June 2022 : proceedings.. Göttingen : Copernicus Publications. 2022, art. no. 25, p. [1-5].. eISSN 2700-8150
Keywords [eng] Violent crime ; Lithuania ; distribution ; trends
Abstract [eng] The paper presents the results of analysis of spatial distribution of violent crime in Lithuania. Two periods are compared: 2015–2019 that can be characterized as a period with relatively stable crime dynamics and 2020, the year of Covid-19 pandemic. Violent crime (events that have elements of direct threat to a person) was chosen because it is the type of crime that causes the most harm and because the worrying trend of its growth has been observed against a backdrop of declining overall crime. We demonstrate how the distribution of violent crime had changed in Lithuania in 2020 compared to the trends of 2015–2019 and, specifically, during the two lockdown periods of 2020 – between March 3 and June 17 and from 4 November to the end of the year.
Published Göttingen : Copernicus Publications
Type Conference paper
Language English
Publication date 2022
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