With the rapid increase of high-density areas in cities, there has been a high concentration of crimes in these areas, hence an urgent need to clear up the doubts about the criminal attraction mechanism in high-density areas. In response to this problem, this article uses urban density to explain, assess and predict the attractiveness of crimes. Based on the assumption that criminal attraction is definitely related to the density of cities, it employs the correlation analysis method to identify the rule of urban density variables and criminal density variables, uses GIS (Geographic Information System)-based crime mapping to demonstrate that crime hot points are scattered over high-density areas, applies the stepwise regression method and the geographically weighted regression method to screens urban variables affecting crime occurrence and distribution, builds a criminal attraction model, and reveals criminal attraction mechanisms in urban high-density areas, which consists mechanisms for space attraction, attached attraction, comprehensive attraction, hedge attraction and so on. The research on criminal attraction mechanism, which constitutes the contemporary evolution of the “Chicago Paradigm”, integrates the macro perspective and the micro perspective into the “Crime Field Theory”,outlines the knowledge pedigree of urban criminology, and provides theoretic support for the “forecasting, warning and prevention” of crime. It reforms the approaches to circuitous governance by optimizing governance policies and techniques, renews the ideas of reserve criminal policy through the transformation from the emergency criminal policy to the reserve type of criminal policy, and innovates the models of technical control by realizing the technological revolution marked by information technology and artificial intelligence. |