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An LLM driven dataset on the spatiotemporal distributions of street and neighborhood crime in China [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Data
Crime is a significant social, economic, and legal issue. This research presents an open-access spatiotemporal repository of street and neighborhood crime data, comprising approximately one million records of crimes in China, with specific geographic ...
Yan Zhang, Mei-Po Kwan, Libo Fang
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The spatial characteristics of crime against the environment committed in Hungary [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Advokatske komore Vojvodine, 2022
This study examines the spatial characteristics of crimes that have been committed against nature and the environment. In Hungary, research in the domain of the geography of crime is truly rare, and the number of researchers who have dared to tackle the ...
Maćaš Sabolč
doaj  

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.
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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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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
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Crimes and Crime Dispersion in Urban Areas in Turkey

open access: yesBulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 2010
Crime is a phenomenon that arises from the interaction between social, political, economic, physical, psychological circumstances and geographical factors.
Sargin Sevil, Temurçin Kadir
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A Sea of Islands, a Sea of Crime: Island Crime Fiction in the Aegean Sea

open access: yesIsland Studies Journal, 2019
Crime fiction frequently takes the real and imaginary geography of islands as its setting and subject. Through a reading of selected novels by Anne Zouroudi, Jeffrey Siger, and Paul Johnston, this article looks at ways in which ideas about ‘islandness ...
Ralph Crane
doaj   +2 more sources

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
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Criminal law tools of combatting transnational corruptive criminality

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Law, 2021
One of the most serious problems in the field of combating crime is the fight against transnational corruption crime. This type of crime already (de facto and de jure) exists as international crime and has a specific subject composition, geography of ...
Olga A. Kuznetsova
doaj   +1 more source

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
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