Crime and disorder, and house sales and prices around the casino sites in Windsor, Ontario, Canada |
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| Authors: | Alan G. Phipps |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4 (e-mail: ) |
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| Abstract: | This study is an analysis of the impact of the opening or closure of a new urban casino on crime and disorder, and house sales and prices in its neighbourhood. The two sets of time-series data were the calls to the police about three types of offences and the house sales through the Multiple Listing Service in two neighbourhoods near the casinos in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Temporally, the weekly numbers of offences and the mean monthly house prices were oscillating almost randomly around their respective declining or stationary long-term averages with no impulse from when a casino either opened or closed. Geographically, only two types of offences increased in number nearer to a casino site, but their respective distance decays neither moderated nor steepened after a casino had closed or opened. Even so, the conclusion is premature that the open or closed casinos have had benign effects on offences and house sales in the neighbourhoods. |
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