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Crime Mapping: Using Geography to Plan Policing

open access: yesConfins, 2019
This paper has as goal to demonstrate how we are able to use crime mapping and Geography to help law enforcement organizations to plan and to obtain better results in reducing criminality by using Crime Mapping as technique to identify why a crime occurs,
Wellington Clay Porcino Silva
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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
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Measuring the geography of opportunity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Quantitative segregation research focuses almost exclusively on the spatial sorting of demographic groups. This research largely ignores the structural characteristics of neighborhoods – such as crime, job accessibility, and school quality – that likely ...
Lens, Michael C
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Beyond the Refugee Crisis how the UK news media represent asylum seekers across national boundaries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Migration is one of the most pressing, divisive issues in global politics today, and media play a crucial role in how communities understand and respond.
Anderson A   +29 more
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Spatial Nature and Geographical Characteristics of Drug Crime in Hungary

open access: yesLaws, 2022
Relatively few people in Hungary deal with the investigation of the spatial nature of crime. In connection with drug crime, we rarely find research dealing with this topic.
Szabolcs Mátyás, Endre Nyitrai
doaj   +1 more source

Concentrations of railway metal theft and the locations of scrap-metal dealers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Metal theft has become a substantial crime problem in many areas. In response, several countries have introduced legislation to regulate scrap-metal recycling yards. However, at present there is little evidence to support this use of the market reduction
Ashby, MPJ, Bowers, KJ
core   +1 more source

Przestrzenne determinanty przestępczości w Krakowie w latach 2017-2021

open access: yesPoliteja, 2022
SPATIAL DETERMINANTS OF CRIME IN KRAKOW, 2017-2021 The article presents a spatial analysis of selected types of crimes committed in Krakow in 2017-2021.
Agnieszka Polończyk
doaj   +1 more source

Territorial Tactics: The Socio-spatial Significance of Private Policing Strategies in Cape Town [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper analyses the policing strategies of private security companies operating in urban space. An existing literature has considered the variety of ways that territory becomes of fundamental importance in the work of public police forces.
Brewer J.   +16 more
core   +2 more sources

Police Misconduct:Mapping its location, seriousness and theoretical underpinning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Police misconduct and the location of street crimes and deviance have received much research attention. The location of police misconduct, by contrast, has not.
Moss, Brian
core   +1 more source

Institutional conditions and social innovations in emerging economies: insights from Mexican enterprises’ initiatives for protecting/preventing the effect of violent events [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Latin-American countries are characterised by societal problems like violence, crime, corruption, the informality that influence any entrepreneurial activity developed by individuals/organisations. Social innovations literature confront “wicked problems”
Guerrero, Maribel, Urbano, David
core   +2 more sources

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