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The study of theft and criminal behavior using spatiotemporal, big, demographic, and neighborhood data is important for guiding security prevention and control. In this study, we analyzed the theft frequency and location characteristics of the study area through mathematical statistics and hot spot analysis methods to discover the spatiotemporal divergence characteristics of theft in the study area during the pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 periods. We detected the spatial variation pattern of the regression coefficients of the local areas of thefts in Haining City by modeling the influencing factors using the geographically weighted regression (GWR) analysis method. The results explained the relationship between theft and the influencing factors and showed that the regression coefficients had both positive and negative values in the pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 periods, indicating that the spatial distribution of theft in urban areas of Haining City was not smooth. Factors related to life and work indicated densely populated areas had increased theft, and theft was negatively correlated with factors related to COVID-19. The other influencing factors were different in terms of their spatial distributions. Therefore, in terms of police prevention and control, video surveillance and police patrols need to be deployed in a focused manner to increase their inhibiting effect on theft according to the different effects of influencing factors during the pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 periods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijgi12050189","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,5]],"date-time":"2023-05-05T01:38:21Z","timestamp":1683250701000},"page":"189","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Spatiotemporal Distribution and Influencing Factors of Theft during the Pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 Periods: A Case Study of Haining City, Zhejiang, China"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Xiaomin","family":"Jiang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering & Architecture, Zhejiang University of Science & Technology, 318 Liuhe Road, Hangzhou 310023, China"},{"name":"Center of Urban and Rural Development, Zhejiang University of Science & Technology, 318 Liuhe Road, Hangzhou 310023, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ziwan","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Zhejiang Police College, Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Department, 555 Binwen Road, Binjiang District, Hangzhou 310053, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ye","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhewei","family":"Mao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Zhejiang Police College, Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Department, 555 Binwen Road, Binjiang District, Hangzhou 310053, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"113","article-title":"A Preliminary Exploration of Crime Geography","volume":"3","author":"Zhu","year":"1986","journal-title":"J. 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