TY - JOUR AB - People call the police and want them to handle a variety of matters besides criminal ones. The city is divided into various communities with different functions and routine activity patterns. This paper examines how calls for police service vary with routine activities and time between two residential areas that are opposites on the quality of life spectrum. The study site is Charlotte, North Carolina, and the data are the calls for service received by the police department during 1986. VL - 19 IS - 4 SN - 0141-2949 DO - 10.1108/13639519610151847 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/13639519610151847 AU - LeBeau James AU - Coulson Richard PY - 1996 Y1 - 1996/01/01 TI - Routine activities and the spatialā€temporal variation of calls for police service: the experience of opposites on the quality of life spectrum T2 - Police Studies: Intnl Review of Police Development PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 1 EP - 14 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -