Turning up the heat: how a warming climate might worsen violent crime in South Africa

dc.date.accessioned	2020-01-09	en
dc.date.accessioned	2023-07-04T19:01:10Z
dc.date.available	2023-07-04T19:01:10Z
dc.date.issued	2023-07-04	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/21583
dc.description.abstract	South Africa could experience a thousand more homicides a year, were the temperature to rise by 1C, according to a recent editorial review of the impact of temperature on violent crime. How the weather affects risk for crime is mediated by a host of other factors, the authors note. As temperatures rise, understanding heat-violence mechanisms will become increasingly important in anticipating and mitigating crime hotspots.	en
dc.format.medium	Print	en
dc.publisher	HSRC Press	en
dc.subject	CRIME	en
dc.subject	TEMPERATURES	en
dc.subject	CLIMATE CHANGE	en
dc.title	Turning up the heat: how a warming climate might worsen violent crime in South Africa	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.description.version	N	en
dc.ProjectNumber	N/A	en
dc.Volume	17(4)	en
dc.BudgetYear	2019/20	en
dc.ResearchGroup	Office of the CEO	en
dc.SourceTitle	HSRC Review	en
dc.PlaceOfPublication	Cape Town	en
dc.ArchiveNumber	11147	en
dc.PageNumber	32-33	en
dc.outputnumber	10256	en
dc.bibliographictitle	Teagle, A. (2019) Turning up the heat: how a warming climate might worsen violent crime in South Africa. HSRC Review. 17(4):32-33.	en
dc.publicationyear	2019	en
dc.contributor.author1	Teagle, A.	en

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