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Offenders' Crime Narratives across Different Types of Crimes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The current study explores the roles offenders see themselves playing during an offence and their relationship to different crime types. One hundred and twenty incarcerated offenders indicated the narrative roles they acted out whilst committing a ...
Borg I.   +26 more
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Sémiotique judiciaire : crime et signe

open access: yesCahiers de Narratologie, 2019
The science of crime, or forensic science, crystallized at around the same time as gothic and detective literature in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
Marcel Danesi
doaj   +1 more source

Spatial distribution and developmental trajectories of crime versus crime severity: do not abandon the count-based model just yet

open access: yesCrime Science, 2022
Purpose/background A new body of research that focuses on crime harm scores rather than counts of crime incidents has emerged. Specifically in the context of spatial analysis of crime, focusing on crime harm suggests that harm is more concentrated than ...
Vincent Harinam   +2 more
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Is violence increasing or decreasing?: a new methodology to measure repeat attacks making visible the significance of gender and domestic relations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The fall in the rate of violent crime has stopped. This is a finding of an investigation using the Crime Survey for England and Wales, 1994–2014, and an improved methodology to include the experiences of high-frequency victims.
Francis, B., Towers, J., Walby, S.
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The practice of crime prevention: design principles for more effective security governance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
South Africa has had a comprehensive crime prevention policy agenda for some time in the form of the 1996 National Crime Prevention Strategy and the 1998 White Paper on Safety and Security.
Berg, Julie, Shearing, Clifford
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Prediction of Suspect Location Based on Spatiotemporal Semantics

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2017
The prediction of suspect location enables proactive experiences for crime investigations and offers essential intelligence for crime prevention. However, existing studies have failed to capture the complex social location transition patterns of suspects
Lian Duan, Xinyue Ye, Tao Hu, Xinyan Zhu
doaj   +1 more source

Youth unemployment and crime: an empirical investigation for Turkey

open access: yesManagerial Economics, 2020
The crime economy has lately become a popular field of research because of regular increases in crime rates. Economists’ interest in crime analysis goes back to Becker’s (1968) model.
Halil Tunca, Ferda Esin Gulel
doaj   +1 more source

Hybrid Neighbourhood Component Analysis with Gradient Tree Boosting for Feature Selection in Forecasting Crime Rate

open access: yesJournal of ICT, 2023
Crime forecasting is beneficial as it provides valuable information to the government and authorities in planning an efficient crime prevention measure. Most criminology studies found that influence from several factors, such as social, demographic, and
Alif Ridzuan Khairuddin   +2 more
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Crime incidents embedding using restricted Boltzmann machines

open access: yes, 2018
We present a new approach for detecting related crime series, by unsupervised learning of the latent feature embeddings from narratives of crime record via the Gaussian-Bernoulli Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBM).
Xie, Yao, Zhu, Shixiang
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Responding to Gun Crime in Ireland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
From stereotypical views of Ireland as a peaceful and ‘low crime ’ society, the media and policy makers now report the worsening of gun crime, in particular crimes of homicide committed by firearm.
Campbell, Liz
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