07:00 am and 17:00 pm as well as between 23:00 pm
and 06:00 am, which showed a spatial concentration
trend. But the difference was their location. Between
07:00 am and 17:00 pm, crime concentrated on suburb
and rural zones, but between 23:00 pm and 06:00 am
the crimes shifted to the downtown area.
5 CONCLUSION
This paper explored the temporal features of prop-
erty crime in the district in Beijing, and the global
and local Moran’s I index were used to investigate the
spatial autocorrelation and heterogeneity of the crime
in different periods. The results illustrated the prop-
erty crime had temporal variation by day of week and
hour of day, and would shift on space along the time.
The findings were helpful to estimate over density
zones and make corresponding ...