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Routine activity effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on burglary in Detroit, March, 2020

Crime Science, 2020
The spread of the coronavirus has led to containment policies in many places, with concomitant shifts in routine activities. Major declines in crime have been reported as a result. However, those declines depend on crime type and may differ by parts of a
Marcus Felson, Shanhe Jiang, Yanqing Xu
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Virtual Burglary [PDF]

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2016
Objectives: This article explores the potential of virtual reality (VR) to study burglary by measuring user responses on the subjective, physiological, and behavioral levels. Furthermore, it examines the influence of individual dispositions, such as sensation seeking and self-control, on behavior during a ...
van Gelder, Jean-Louis, Nee, Claire, Otte, Marco, van Sintemaartensdijk, Iris, Demetriou, Andrew, van Prooijen, Jan-Willem   +5 more
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Do targeted, place‐based educational campaigns influence citizen engagement and violent crime? A quasi‐experiment of the alert conscience technique of situational crime prevention

Criminology &Public Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Between 2021 and 2024, the Mecklenburg County (NC) Department of Public Health's Office of Violence Prevention launched two targeted media campaigns in response to high rates of community violence. The first used geofencing: virtual geographic boundaries that deliver targeted advertisements to mobile devices.
Eric L. Piza, Claire Harkins, Katherine P. Hazen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A picture worth a thousand words: The effect of murals on crime

Criminology &Public Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Drawing on the tenets of situational crime prevention, several place‐based interventions are both effective in reducing crime and relatively inexpensive. The installation of large exterior murals also fits within the situational crime prevention framework.
Maya Moritz
wiley   +1 more source

In Defence of Walkability as a Crime Prevention Strategy

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT New Urbanist ideas promoting walkability have many benefits. But they are criticised by proponents of crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED), who blame street connectivity for facilitating target recognition, providing access and escape routes and weakening informal surveillance.
Jose Pina‐Sánchez, Ian Loader
wiley   +1 more source

Who Achieves Long‐Term Goals? Development and Validation of the DPR Conceptualization of Trait Self‐Control and the DPR Self‐Control Scale

Journal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Trait self‐control predicts many desirable life outcomes ranging from health to wealth. Yet, conceptual issues around the construct (e.g., how to integrate coexisting perspectives or acknowledge the variability of individual goals and dominant tendencies) seem insufficiently resolved.
Lasse Wennerhold, Dorota Reis, Malte Friese   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kant on Bullshit Jobs—Mere Means and True Means

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, there has recently been academic and public discussion about useless work. Immanuel Kant maintains that we ought to be means for others and that there is a duty to be useful. Graeber and Kant are both concerned with a form of harm often overlooked in contemporary ethics and political philosophy, namely,
Martin Sticker
wiley   +1 more source

Camera-Based Crime Behavior Detection and Classification

Smart Cities
Increasing numbers of public and private locations now have surveillance cameras installed to make those areas more secure. Even though many organizations still hire someone to monitor the cameras, the person hired is more likely to miss some unexpected ...
Jerry Gao, Jingwen Shi, Priyanka Balla, Akshata Sheshgiri, Bocheng Zhang, Hailong Yu, Yunyun Yang   +6 more
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Money Laundering and Illegal Trafficking of Waste: Evidence From Italian Provinces

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Money laundering and waste‐related crimes are widely studied by the literature. However, little attention has been paid to the connection between the latter and the former. Using Italian data at the provincial level, the analysis presented here shows that waste‐related crimes also generate illegal proceeds that increase the flows of dirty ...
Emanuele Lucca, Matteo Migheli, Maria Oliva   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forecasting residential burglary [PDF]

International Journal of Forecasting, 2003
Abstract Following the work of Dhiri et al. [ Modelling and predicting property crime trends . Home Office Research Study 198 (1999). London: HMSO] at the Home Office predicting recorded burglary and theft for England and Wales to the year 2001, econometric and time series models were constructed for predicting recorded residential burglary to the ...
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