Do crime hot spots affect housing prices?

ABSTRACT

Our knowledge about what happens to housing values when properties are close to places with high concentrations of crime, often called ‘hot spots’, is limited. Previous research suggests that crime depresses property prices overall, but crime hot spots affect house prices more than crime occurrence does and may affect prices of single-family houses more than prices of flats. Here we employ hedonic price modelling to estimate the impact of crime hot spots on housing sales, controlling for property, neighbourhood and city characteristics in the Stockholm metropolitan region, Sweden. Using a Geographic Information System (GIS), we combine property sales by coordinates into a single database with locations of crime hot spots. The overall effect on house prices of crime (measured as crime rates) is relatively small, but if its impact is measured by distance to a crime hot spot, the effect is non-negligible. By moving a house 1 km further away from a crime hot spot, its value increases by more than SEK 30,000 (about EUR 2,797). Vandalism is the type of crime that most affects prices for both multi- and single-family housing, but that effect decreases with distance from a crime hot spot.     

论时尚文化与青年价值观的互动逻辑及其启示

在传统研究视域里,人们较为注重时尚文化对青年价值观的单向影响,而没有深入考察二者之间的双向互动关系,从而未能全面揭示它们之间存在的相互影响规律.实际上,时尚文化以其独特方式介入青年价值观的生成过程、嬗变过程和功能发挥过程,促进价值观生成和变迁.同时,青年形成的价值观又主要通过催生作用、选择作用和引领作用与时尚文化进行互动,创造、甄别和引导时尚文化.我们应该促进积极的时尚文化成为塑造青年价值观的新视界,充分发挥时尚文化的价值意义;应该将社会主义核心价值观融入青年价值观教育之中,以更好支撑时尚文化;应该增强时尚文化与青年价值观之间的互动共进效果,发挥二者正向协同作用.     

论中国特色社会主义的价值自觉

中国特色社会主义的伟大实践是中国共产党领导中国人民正在进行的一场伟大的价值实践活动。价值自觉是价值自信的基础和前提，价值自信是价值自觉的结果和归宿，只有对事实的高度的价值自觉才能铸就对事实的充分的价值自信。唯有中国特色社会主义的价值自觉才能铸就中国特色社会主义的价值自信。中国特色社会主义理论体系要想深入人心、扎根广大人民群众，就必须培育中国特色社会主义的价值自觉，以增强中国特色社会主义的价值自信。中国特色社会主义的价值自信必将铸就中华民族的社会主义价值认同，必将奠定全体人民为了中国特色社会主义的政治理想和价值目标而共同奋斗的重要文化基础。     

“廉能量”的内涵、外延和作用

"正能量"的提出不仅可以整饬社会风气,而且可以通过批判现存的失范现象重塑道德规范,促使人们的行为符合必要的社会规范,因而为群众自觉接受、广泛认同并大力提倡。"正能量"的内核就是"廉"及由其生发的"廉能量"。"廉能量"是指党员干部坚定理想信念、坚守清正廉洁、坚持率先垂范而释放出的强大清廉能量,能够引领、带动民风和社会风气聚合、裂变出更大的社会正能量。"廉能量"的聚合、释放、传递,对净化心灵、端正行为、提振精神,实现党风与社会风气的良性互动提供支撑点和动力源。     

中国梦背景下民办高校核心价值观的建构

民办高校核心价值观建设为我国高校的发展方向提供思想指导和精神动力；为凝聚高校思想精神提供信念和内涵上的不竭源泉；为促进高校创新式发展提供强大的智力支持；为高校的校园文化建设提供丰富具体的价值尺度。民办高校核心价值观是高校校园文化的核心和灵魂，是凝聚全体校园人共同奋斗的精神动力。因此，建构高校核心价值观是高校自身发展的内在要求。     

试论传统价值观与当代青年社会主义核心价值观的构建

社会转型期,当代青年对传统价值观的认知呈现出明显的矛盾,本文从认知现状显示出的困境及成因人手,着重分析社会主义核心价值观中的传统价值观部分,按照社会主义核心价值体系的要求,探讨传统价值观在构建当代青年社会主义核心价值观过程中的自主引导作用。     

论人民警察职业道德建设

加强人民警察职业道德建设、提高人民警察职业道德素养,是公安队伍建设的重要内容。人民警察职业道德建设必须把绝对忠诚摆在首位、以服务人民为终极取向、以无私奉献为基本要求。在改革开放全面深化的今天,人民警察职业道德建设不仅是增强警察综合素质、促进警察专业发展的必然要求,而且是树立警察良好形象、提升公安软实力的内在诉求,同时也是保障社会公平正义、维护社会安定和谐的现实需求。人民警察职业道德建设必须完善人民警察职业道德规范体系,强化人民警察职业道德教育与实践,提高人民警察职业道德修养的自觉性,健全人民警察道德监督机制。     

On the Narrating Mechanism and the Values of Utopia

Utopia exists as an eternal hope system of human’s good life, and having great influences both on personal experience of life and order of human innovation.The preconditions of Utopia are natural goodness of human beings, universal justice, entirety life, and the results of fairness and justice. Within Paradoxes and difficulties, Utopia still has philosophic, cultural, economical, and political values.     

The Hurried Justification of Sanctions

In this paper I try to see how the Derridean aporias of the law of the urgency of legal decisions (the law interrupts the input of knowledge in the decision-making process) and the épokhè of the rule (justice can never be done in the present) are revealed in the context of the justification of sanctions. I argue that sanctions can only be justified in a purposive manner in the last instance. They can only be means to an end of punishment which has been opted for, and which can be justified on grounds of principles, or an authoritative calculation of incommensurable entities. I argue against theories, which advocate the internal connection of law and morality, because if such a connection could be established, the aporia of the hurried and unjustified action would obviously disappear. In particular my target is discourse theory as formulated mainly by Robert Alexy with his Sonderfallthese(Special Case Thesis). My objection is that, because of their instrumental nature, sanctions cannot be justified on moral grounds. I also consider some objections that could be raised from Klaus Günther's theory of appropriateness and Habermas' distinction between the moral, ethical and pragmatic employments of practical reason. I am argue that the former, which would become relevant at the stage of application, that is sentencing, does not resolve the justificatory problem of sanctions, and the latter confirms rather than falsifies my claim that punishment can never be said to be just.     

从文化价值观透视美国的对外政策传统

文化价值观作为观念性的东西 ,其深刻内涵主要反映在心理—价值层面。美国的文化价值观主要有上帝选择的“使命观”和美国心理的偏执狂心态。在此基础上形成了其孤立主义和扩张主义、理想主义和现实主义、反共主义等外交政策传统。美国对外政策的每一步变化均未摆脱其文化价值观的束缚和制约。全面和深刻地认识美国的文化价值观对研究其外交政策具有重要意义