The spatial distribution of "hotspot schools" and the relationship with crime pattern in Mukim Petaling and Klang

• Published in: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
• Main Author: Hashim H.; Sadek E.S.S.M.; Wan Mohd W.M.N.
• Format: Conference paper
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2018
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85051981953&doi=10.1088%2f1755-1315%2f169%2f1%2f012109&partnerID=40&md5=7c52eb8e3c1fcb50ca1f4f0221352bcc

The Ministry of Education has announced a list of 402 hotspot schools in August 2017, and it has raised concerns among many parents and school community about the safety of school students. Hotspot schools is a school that has been identified with misconduct, discipline, and drug. The objective of this paper is to determine the type of different hotspot schools which influence the spatial distribution of crime types at the intra-urban scale. This study employed the GIS tool «multiple ring buffer» and the « location quotient crime» (LQC) as the main methods. By using LQC index, the results reveal that there is 4 hotspot schools within buffer ring from 0 to 500 meters have a high crime attraction with LQC above 3.0 and 8 hotspot schools that below LQC of 0.5 which have strong detraction or lowest problem of crime distribution in the study area. This result also shows that crime distribution in 35 hotspot schools produced LQC equal to 0.1, meaning that hotspot schools in study area contributing only 10% of the overall total of crime in Mukim Petaling and Klang. The importance of spatial distribution with proximity analysis provides useful information for encouraging school and law enforcement agencies to promote safety zone area for school. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.