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A framework for estimating crime location choice based on awareness space
Crime Science, 2020 This paper extends Crime Pattern Theory, proposing a theoretical framework which aims to explain how offenders’ previous routine activity locations influence their future offence locations.
Sophie Curtis-Ham +3 more
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Social Sciences, 2022 The lack of organisation in urban spaces plays a decisive role in the level of integration, communication and social bonds of the residents, impacting the citizens’ feelings of trust and security.
Sónia Caridade +7 more
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Concentration of personal and household crimes in England and Wales [PDF]
, 2010 Crime is disproportionally concentrated in few areas. Though long-established, there remains uncertainty about the reasons for variation in the concentration of similar crime (repeats) or different crime (multiples).
Nicolaou, A +3 more
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Applied Network Science, 2023 This study aims to improve our understanding of criminal accomplice selection by studying the evolution of co-offending networks—i.e., networks that connect those who commit crimes together.
Alberto Nieto +2 more
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Cogent Social Sciences, 2023 Banditry constitutes about 40% of national insecurity in Nigeria. It is a composite crime manifesting in wanton killing, cattle rustling, kidnapping for ransom, levying of illegal tax on farming communities, sexual violence and trafficking of arms and ...
Oluwole Ojewale
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Do sports stadiums generate crime on days without matches? A natural experiment on the delayed exploitation of criminal opportunities [PDF]
, 2018 Crime pattern theory claims that busy places generate crime through immediate and delayed exploitation. In delayed exploitation, offenders notice criminal opportunities during opening hours but return to exploit them later.
Bernasco, Wim +2 more
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Barriers to Calling 9-1-1 during Overdose Emergencies in a Canadian Context
Critical Social Work, 2019 Research has shown there are notable barriers to calling 9-1-1 during accidental overdose emergencies. Overdose is a significant health and social justice concern, yet Canadian researchers have not explored the existence or prevalence of these systemic ...
Kayla M. Follett +3 more
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Functional and dysfunctional fear of COVID-19: a classification scheme
Crime Science, 2021 Worry about COVID-19 is a central topic of research into the social and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we present a new way of measuring worry about catching COVID-19 that distinguishes between worry as a negative ...
Reka Solymosi +5 more
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Illicit Economies and Urban Peace: Introduction to the Special issue
Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021 The Special Issue proposes ‘urban peace’ as a way of thinking about policy responses to the dynamics of crime, violence, and exclusion that are associated with illicit economies.
Achim Wennmann +2 more
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Juvenile Victims of Property Crimes. [PDF]
, 2000 Property crime is the most frequent kind of criminal victimization and one with important economic and psychological consequences, although it has not received the same public attention as violent crime in recent years. Property crime victimization rates
Finkelhor, David, Ormrod, Richard
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