Car Dependency

I am currently working on a series of projects exploring the links between motor traffic and criminality, an area of study that Dr. Thiago Oliveira has famously coined as Carminology.

As part of a team led by Prof. Henry Yeomans I’m working on a project investigating the causes behind the observed decline in drunk driving offences in the UK in the last few decades. For this project we are using historical documents and conducting a representative survey of the British population. The project is funded by the Interdisciplinary Network for Time from the Horizons Institute at the University of Leeds.

I am also working with Dr Toby Davies on a couple of studies estimating the efffect of motor traffic on street crime. For this, we are using open data on road characteristics and longitudinal survey data from Understanding Society. These are the slides from a work in progress seminar, and below is the main theoretical framework we are using.

Direct and indirect effects of motor traffic on anti-social behaviour