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Geography of Crime and Geographic Information Systems [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Sciences & Criminal Investigation, 2017
A link between human geography and criminology has been established as a result of the development of strong parallel that has existed in science for decades, similar to how criminology was predominantly put in the focus of sociology due to the series of paradigm shifts. Cognitive mapping, environmental perception and values and meanings attributed to “
Butorac, Ksenija, Marinović, Jelena
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

Right place, right time? Making crime pattern theory time-specific

open access: yesCrime Science, 2021
Objectives Crime pattern theory and the related empirical research have remained rather a-temporal, as if the timing of routine activities and crime plays no role.
Sabine E. M. van Sleeuwen   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

A critical geography of disability hate crime [PDF]

open access: yesArea, 2018
Many disabled people experience fear, harassment and occasionally violence in an array of public and private spaces, yet the issue remains unexamined by geographers of disability. To address this research gap, the paper develops a critical geography of disability “hate crime.” Extreme, yet rare, violent acts against disabled people constitute the ...
E. Hall
openaire   +3 more sources

Validating the Remotely Sensed Geography of Crime: A Review of Emerging Issues

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2014
This paper explores the existing literature on the active detection of crimes using remote sensing technologies. The paper reviews sixty-one studies that use remote sensing to actively detect crime.
Alice B. Kelly, Nina Maggi Kelly
doaj   +2 more sources

The geography of crime and crime control

open access: yesApplied Geography, 2017
Vandeviver, Christophe, Bernasco, Wim
openaire   +3 more sources

UK open source crime data: accuracy and possibilities for research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In the United Kingdom, since 2011 data regarding individual police recorded crimes have been made openly available to the public via the police.uk website.
Ashby, M   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Examining the Geography of Illicit Massage Businesses Hosting Commercial Sex and Sex Trafficking in the United States: The Role of Census Tract and City-Level Factors

open access: yesCrime & Delinquency, 2022
Despite extensive theory and research on the geography of crime, few studies have examined the geography of commercial sex and sex trafficking through a criminological lens.
Ieke de Vries
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The effect of altitude and slope on the spatial patterning of burglary [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Physical geography is significant for crime, and its presence or absence, yet no studies have investigated the relationship between crime and certain broader features of physical geography such as altitude, and slope. In this study I attempt to fill this
Breetzke, G.D.
core   +1 more source

Hatescape? A relational geography of disability hate crime, exclusion and belonging in the city

open access: yesGeoforum, 2019
Disabled people experience significant social discrimination and spatial exclusion in their everyday lives in the city. In recent years, discriminatory acts have increasingly been labelled as 'hate crimes'.
E. Hall, Ellie Bates
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Urban characteristics attributable to density-driven tie formation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Motivated by empirical evidence on the interplay between geography, population density and societal interaction, we propose a generative process for the evolution of social structure in cities.
Cebrian, Manuel   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

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