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Crime risk analysis through big data algorithm with urban metrics
, 2020Crime is pervasive all around the world. Understanding the influence of social features on crime occurrences of a city is a hot topic among researchers.
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2016
The historical transformation in the distribution of crime between towns and rural areas in the Western world between 1750 and 1950 remains a complex and debated issue. The few comparative studies on long-term crime seem to indicate a sharp decrease in urban crime, although with considerable variation in chronology and intensity.
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The historical transformation in the distribution of crime between towns and rural areas in the Western world between 1750 and 1950 remains a complex and debated issue. The few comparative studies on long-term crime seem to indicate a sharp decrease in urban crime, although with considerable variation in chronology and intensity.
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Applied Geography, 2018
Routine activity theory is one of the few macro-criminological perspectives that provides support to the idea of spatial heterogeneity, suggesting that an increased human presence in a given area is expected to be associated with both an increase and a ...
R. Boivin
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Routine activity theory is one of the few macro-criminological perspectives that provides support to the idea of spatial heterogeneity, suggesting that an increased human presence in a given area is expected to be associated with both an increase and a ...
R. Boivin
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The economic geographies of transnational organised crime
2021This chapter explores one of the largely overlooked elements within the literature of transnational organised crime (TOC). It considers the economic geographies of organised crime. In pursuing this, the chapter aims both to excavate those geographical ‘traces’ that exist, often implicitly, within the literatures of TOC and to raise a number of ...
Tim Hall, Ray Hudson
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The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1941
DURING the past forty years students have become less and less disposed to posit new hypotheses concerning the influences of physical geography upon crime, and have become either skeptical of the old hypotheses or disinterested in them. The observations and brilliant speculations concerning the general effects of the geographical environment made by a ...
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DURING the past forty years students have become less and less disposed to posit new hypotheses concerning the influences of physical geography upon crime, and have become either skeptical of the old hypotheses or disinterested in them. The observations and brilliant speculations concerning the general effects of the geographical environment made by a ...
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GEOGRAPHY OF CRIME IN UKRAINIAN REGIONAL CENTERS
Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Geography, 2021The article considers the issue of the spread of criminal offenses in the regional centers of Ukraine in 2015–2019, as well as in the first half of 2020. The purpose of the article is to reveal the topic of crime in the regional centers of Ukraine, as one of the most important problems for the further development of Ukraine as a European state.
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The Multiscalar Geography of Hate Crimes
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010This paper develops a theoretical analysis of hate crimes in light of some core concepts of legal geography – physical place, discursive space, scale, territory, and citizenship. It argues that bias crimes and reactions to them, including the possibility of state counterviolence, constitute a dynamic and ongoing dialogue that constructs territory and ...
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The Geography of American Crime, 1968
Journal of Geography, 1971Abstract A series of computer-generated maps are presented, illustrating the state-level distribution of major crimes in the United States for the year 1968. The maps are divided into two broad groups—those relating to (a) crimes of violence, and (b) crimes against property. In the violent crime group, distributions are shown for murder, rape, robbery,
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The Geography of Crime (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)
2014This book presents original research into contemporary geographical aspects of the study of crime. The contributors, drawn from different disciplines within the social sciences and from various countries, give a review of the subject which provides a valuable insight into the geography of crime.
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The Geography Of Crime: A Political Critique∗
The Professional Geographer, 1975(1975). The Geography Of Crime: A Political Critique. The Professional Geographer: Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 277-280.
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