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Crime and coronavirus: social distancing, lockdown, and the mobility elasticity of crime
Crime Science, 2020 Governments around the world restricted movement of people, using social distancing and lockdowns, to help stem the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. We examine crime effects for one UK police force area in comparison to 5-year averages.
Eric Halford +4 more
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Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Research on how delinquent peer associations affect individuals’ life courses is limited. This paper addresses this gap by examining delinquent peer network characteristics and their impact on offending trajectories through social network analysis (SNA) and group‐based trajectory modeling (GBTM).
Daniel Trovato
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The wider network of social relationships and desistance from crime
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Prior research has focused on marriage as a key relationship associated with crime cessation. Yet particularly within the contemporary context, relationships with parents, peers, and other family members may also foster or inhibit progress toward desistance.
Peggy C. Giordano +4 more
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Interactional privilege of violence: Status and interaction in the street field
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Criminologists have long described and theorized the relationship between status, respect, and violence within urban communities. Although this finding is generally accepted within criminology, ethnographic empirical illustrations of this phenomenon are sparse.
Hakan Kalkan, Heith Copes
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Social Media in the Digital Age: A Comprehensive Review of Impacts, Challenges and Cybercrime
Engineering ProceedingsThere are very renowned social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, etc., with each of which being used by different shareholders across the world to communicate with each other. Social media is a pool of online communication platforms that
Gagandeep Kaur +8 more
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Why do mexicans report so little crime? The determinants of crime reporting in Mexico
Sobre México, 2022 We analyze the factors that explain a victim’s decision to report burglary, public theft, extortion, and fraud to the public prosecutor’s office in Mexico.
Constantino Carreto Romero +1 more
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Criminology &Public Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary In the summer of 2025, the Columbia (SC) Police Department (CPD) implemented a full‐scale crime intervention in the Millwood Avenue Corridor (MAC), a historically high‐crime neighborhood. The intervention consisted of random high‐visibility patrols on 10 high‐crime streets during high‐crime times, increased LED lighting ...
Hunter M. Boehme +4 more
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019 A contextual effects model, built based on Bayesian spatial modeling strategy, was used to investigate contextual effects on neighborhood burglary risks in Wuhan, China.
Hongqiang Liu +3 more
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Optimizing patrol time in crime hot spots: Replicating the “Koper Curve”
Criminology &Public Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary In a study published more than 30 years ago, Koper found that patrol visits to crime hot spots were most effective in deterring crime and disorder when they were 11–15 min in length. This finding, popularly known as the “Koper Curve,” has had a substantial influence on police practice and research.
Christopher S. Koper +2 more
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Redai diliWillingness to report critically influences crime victims' reporting behavior. Victims' failure to report crimes generates a "dark figure" of crime in the data source and constrains their access to judicial protection and social support, thereby ...
Jie Gu, Kecheng Huo, Xiao Chen
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