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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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Crime Is in the Air: The Contemporaneous Relationship between Air Pollution and Crime
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2020 Many empirical studies have examined the various determinants of crime. However, the link between crime and air pollution has been largely overlooked.
Malvina Bondy, Sefi Roth, Lutz Sager
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Crime prediction through urban metrics and statistical learning
, 2018 Understanding the causes of crime is a longstanding issue in researcher's agenda. While it is a hard task to extract causality from data, several linear models have been proposed to predict crime through the existing correlations between crime and urban ...
Alves, Luiz G A +2 more
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Guns, germs, and stealing: exploring the link between infectious disease and crime. [PDF]
, 2013 Can variation in crime rates be traced to the threat of infectious disease? Pathogens pose an ongoing challenge to survival, leading humans to adapt defenses to manage this threat.
Shrira, Ilan +2 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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Understanding recurrent crime as system-immanent collective behavior [PDF]
, 2013 Containing the spreading of crime is a major challenge for society. Yet, since thousands of years, no effective strategy has been found to overcome crime. To the contrary, empirical evidence shows that crime is recurrent, a fact that is not captured well
Donnay, Karsten +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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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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American Journal of Criminal Justice, 2020 This work investigates whether and how COVID-19 containment policies had an immediate impact on crime trends in Los Angeles. The analysis is conducted using Bayesian structural time-series and focuses on nine crime categories and on the overall crime ...
G. Campedelli +2 more
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Pre‐Diagnostic Features of Multiple Sclerosis in a Diverse UK Cohort: A Nested Case–Control Study
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Many patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) experience nonspecific symptoms prior to diagnosis. This period—the 'MS prodrome'—has been described in socio‐economically homogeneous cohorts to date. It remains unclear to what extent events prior to an MS diagnosis differ according to social determinants of health. Methods We conducted a
Pooja Tank +3 more
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