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Table 3 Correlation between theft near stations (250 m buffer) and theft below ground on the London Underground by time of day, 1 st April 2011 to 31 st March 2012

From: Above and below: measuring crime risk in and around underground mass transit systems

Spearman’s correlations (rho)

Theft from person (per million passenger journeys per hour)

A1: Near stations

  

Shoplifting

Other thefts

Theft from person

Interstitial Crime Analysis: Below ground theft (B1+2)

Early (02–06:59)

0.087

**.375

**.425

Am peak (07–09:59)

−0.05

**.173

**.169

Inter-peak (10–15:59)

−0.083

0.025

0.105

Pm peak (16–18:59)

*-.129

*.127

**.261

Evening (19–21:59)

−0.06

0.084

**.190

Late (22–01:59)

*-.132

0.012

0.026

  1. **Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level;
  2. *Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level.