Academic Sources

Bernasco, W., & Block, R. (2010). Robberies in Chicago: A Block-Level Analysis of the Influence of Crime Generators, Crime Attractors, and Offender Anchor Points. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency,48(1), 33-57. doi:10.1177/0022427810384135

Frank, R., Dabbaghian, V., Reid, A., & Singh, S. (2011). Journal of artificial societies and social simulation: Power of criminal attractors: Modeling the pull of activity nodes SimSoc Consortium. doi:10.18564/jasss.1734

Ned Levine and Associates. (2014). CrimeStat IV: CrimeStat IV Manual. https://www.nij.gov/topics/technology/maps/documents/crimestat-files/CrimeStat%20IV%20Chapter%201.pdf

Data Sources

• Chicago Census Tract Data (Chicago Data Guy) http://robparal.blogspot.ca/2014/01/chicago-tract-shapefile-with-acs-data.html
• CTA – ‘L’ (Rail) Stations (Chicago Data Portal) https://data.cityofchicago.org/Transportation/CTA-L-Rail-Stations-Shapefile/vmyy-m9qj/data
• Chicago Major Streets (Chicago Data Portal)  https://data.cityofchicago.org/Transportation/Major-Streets/ueqs-5wr6
• Crimes 2016 (Chicago Data Portal)
  https://data.cityofchicago.org/Public-Safety/Crimes-2016/kf95-mnd6
• Major Sporting Stadiums (ArcGIS)
  https://hifld-dhs-gii.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/15142d7e20074d2390efeab9a2fe9aa8_0