Crime topic modeling

Kuang, Da; Brantingham, P. Jeffrey; Bertozzi, Andrea L.

doi:10.1186/s40163-017-0074-0

Crime Science

Table 4 Confusion matrix for official crime types by topics

From: Crime topic modeling

Formal crime classification	‘window’	‘punch’	‘door’	‘card’	‘direct’	‘approach’	‘store’	‘entri’	‘verbal’	‘vehicl’	‘kill’
	‘smash’	‘face’	‘open’	‘credit’	‘unknown’	‘demand’	‘pai’	‘gain’	‘involv’	‘park’	‘state’
	‘passeng’	‘time’	‘front’	‘info’	‘fled’	‘monei’	‘exit’	‘properti’	‘disput’	‘unlock’	‘threaten’
	‘side’	‘fist’	‘pri’	‘account’	‘tool’	‘foot’	‘conceal’	‘remov’	‘argument’	‘driver’	‘fear’
	‘rear’	‘struck’	‘pry’	‘permiss’	‘mean’	‘point’	‘merchandis’	‘forc’	‘push’	‘kei’	‘im’
	‘front’	‘head’	‘rear’	‘obtain’	‘properti’	‘grab’	‘select’	‘access’	‘engag’	‘unknown’	‘call’
	‘driver’	‘kick’	‘unlock’	‘purchas’	‘broke’	‘handgun’	‘enter’	‘unknown’	‘angri’	‘scratch’	‘life’
	‘broke’	‘close’	‘tool’	‘person’	‘remov’	‘gun’	‘walk’	‘made’	‘grab’	‘tire’	‘told’
	‘unknown’	‘hit’	‘side’	‘make’	‘pry’	‘fled’	‘attempt’	‘tool’	‘alterc’	‘insid’	‘safeti’
	‘remov’	‘multipl’	‘driver’	‘ident’	‘prop’	‘hand’	‘regist’	‘locat’	‘hand’	‘drove’	‘knife’
	T1	T2	T3	T4	T5	T6	T7	T8	T9	T10	T11
Burglary from vehicle	29,497	148	6495	267	4499	36	22	12,663	7	9735	25
Burglary	4879	51	19,294	128	3032	77	914	11604	16	148	89
Battery	183	28,972	893	197	1565	5147	610	172	26,721	1427	1512
Petty theft	115	172	1726	1872	5943	1423	9969	699	330	1110	574
Identity theft	12	36	242	45,672	195	84	193	1561	17	156	535
Grand theft	84	138	1241	1435	4946	1543	1526	1310	178	1173	561
Robbery	79	4928	442	77	746	23,112	1949	139	639	1231	1406
Vandalism ($400 and over)	5419	362	1589	84	2925	310	168	320	962	7712	159
Assault with deadly weapon	393	7689	421	82	1783	8041	331	74	8038	5537	2655
Vandalism (less than $400)	6534	375	1834	85	2845	318	142	428	1184	4454	210
Criminal threats	53	497	216	64	168	925	131	55	3434	242	25,035
Theft from vehicle-petty	362	9	1640	235	2241	76	24	1331	17	7280	27
Shoplifting	1	14	72	41	80	48	12,353	10	7	39	6
Theft from vehicle-grand	184	3	1038	68	1825	36	8	891	6	4899	13
Forged or stolen document	4	11	8	1265	53	66	118	57	12	61	51
Other miscellaneous crime	77	343	303	1249	211	625	1280	220	648	1000	1350
Annoying/lewd/obscene phone calls/letters	4	730	28	171	35	102	27	13	202	35	3713
Violation of court order	35	324	205	85	85	275	69	38	160	186	1446
Attempted burglary	771	10	2174	4	262	21	19	1861	3	17	14
Attempted robbery	28	749	67	11	69	3820	172	30	61	166	263
Theft from person	17	42	39	61	245	2979	66	5	125	223	50
Trespassing/loitering on private property	129	214	640	294	162	129	107	283	96	96	200
Violation of restraining order	42	128	225	57	77	202	38	47	162	161	612
Brandishing weapon	25	62	71	3	82	1249	49	10	761	266	524
Child endangering/neglect	8	195	51	27	15	79	118	19	362	194	905
Bicycle-stolen	6	4	43	12	156	31	31	19	2	11	3
Embezzlement-grand theft	0	3	0	43	1	18	16	0	2	1802	16
Felony battery on police officer	12	822	33	12	9	97	66	26	163	73	95
Bunco-grand theft	0	5	3	228	33	462	61	10	14	90	142
Shots fired	29	57	28	13	411	446	9	3	56	325	51
Total	50,313	48,937	42,787	56,078	36,159	56,162	33,729	35,189	45,923	55,982	46,582

Formal crime classification	‘item’	‘damag’	‘lock’	‘check’	‘phone’	‘object’	‘left’	‘properti’	‘resid’	Total
	‘busi’	‘caus’	‘secur’	‘cash’	‘cell’	‘hard’	‘purs’	‘locat’	‘ransack’
	‘select’	‘paint’	‘cut’	‘forg’	‘call’	‘unknown’	‘return’	‘remov’	‘enter’
	‘pai’	‘threw’	‘bike’	‘account’	‘hand’	‘sharp’	‘miss’	‘enter’	‘rear’
	‘conceal’	‘sprai’	‘bicycl’	‘bank’	‘order’	‘scratch’	‘wallet’	‘fled’	‘window’
	‘enter’	‘injuri’	‘tool’	‘monei’	‘violat’	‘break’	‘insid’	‘unknown’	‘bedroom’
	‘locat’	‘wall’	‘park’	‘busi’	‘ask’	‘smash’	‘discov’	‘unlock’	‘poe’
	‘purchas’	‘kick’	‘return’	‘order’	‘grab’	‘type’	‘unattend’	‘poe’	‘screen’
	‘bag’	‘visibl’	‘garag’	‘deposit’	‘text’	‘windshield’	‘observ’	‘busi’	‘insid’
	‘shelf’	‘scratch’	‘miss’	‘attempt’	‘messag’	‘fled’	‘shop’	‘ent’	‘exit’
	T12	T13	T14	T15	T16	T17	T18	T19	T20
Burglary from vehicle	1239	243	7872	81	371	7547	594	8138	73	89,552
Burglary	2050	246	4482	308	251	1704	584	16,463	16,705	83,025
Battery	241	5384	415	103	959	517	2196	717	1276	79,207
Petty theft	4131	170	5378	1258	4914	102	10,521	14737	2259	67,403
Identity theft	598	43	950	5087	1251	5	554	103	104	57,398
Grand theft	1666	144	3773	1821	1099	108	5581	13289	3081	44,697
Robbery	669	483	277	451	2593	577	1407	2718	435	44,358
Vandalism ($400 and over)	321	12,595	788	87	149	6852	444	998	927	43,171
Assault with deadly weapon	91	3136	445	34	157	1332	1088	469	883	42,679
Vandalism (less than $400)	300	8318	1186	83	247	5423	486	820	1103	36,375
Criminal threats	62	182	68	58	1234	53	223	61	595	33,356
Theft from vehicle-petty	376	69	478	50	278	91	787	4980	70	20,421
Shoplifting	3405	9	70	46	143	5	227	1103	6	17,685
Theft from vehicle-grand	312	53	452	28	96	77	501	3625	58	14,173
Forged or stolen document	151	4	7	9099	26	0	45	65	32	11,135
Other miscellaneous crime	125	377	376	721	345	45	393	347	487	10,522
Annoying/lewd/obscene phone calls/letters	19	301	12	39	3212	4	107	14	147	8915
Violation of court order	15	56	21	2592	1102	5	288	225	1165	8377
Attempted burglary	37	111	274	14	10	213	33	250	945	7043
Attempted robbery	49	79	45	64	304	85	243	206	26	6537
Theft from person	45	22	43	37	1181	9	762	548	28	6527
Trespassing/loitering on private property	119	92	332	76	23	17	417	1558	975	5959
Violation of restraining order	10	32	10	1007	875	10	111	164	1268	5238
Brandishing weapon	8	38	31	3	21	19	70	37	115	3444
Child endangering/neglect	10	264	19	49	21	10	413	76	402	3237
Bicycle-stolen	3	3	1365	1	1	8	151	401	58	2309
Embezzlement-grand theft	0	1	0	10	31	0	279	1	1	2224
Felony battery on police officer	3	381	6	30	8	10	137	19	5	2007
Bunco-grand theft	19	6	7	575	123	0	33	64	44	1919
Shots fired	3	91	6	5	0	7	44	117	75	1776
Total	17,012	34,995	30,147	25,571	22,355	25416	30,630	74,287	35441

Dominant words in each topic are shown across the top. Row totals reflect the total number of crimes formally classified under each crime type. Column total reflect the total number of crimes clustered within each topic. Italic numbers are column maxima

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