Geography Reference
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Fig. 5 The Brazilian states mapped by crime victim type (as % for state): a Property; b Person;
c Murder; d Attempted Murder; e Quarrels or fights; f Atrocity; g Abuse of authority; h Domestic
violence. Legend same as for Fig.
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bank in a particular state would be expressed as a percentage of all crimes occurring
in that state (i.e. for all places). For example, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, 12
recorded crimes occurred in banks out of a total of 777 crimes in that state. As a
percentage this is expressed as 1.5 % to normalize this figure relative to other states.
In all, 48 variables of interest were extracted, 5 for the crime type group, 8 for the crime
victim type group, 13 for the crime setting group and 22 for the reason for crime group.
3.1.2 Maps of Volunteered Crime Data
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display the maps for all selected crime-related
attributes, by state (choropleth maps) and by degree grid cell (choropleth maps
containing polygons of approximately regular size and geometry). All maps use
