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Analyzing Space-Time Dynamics of Theft Rates Using Exchange Mobility

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2018
A critical issue in the geography of crime is the quantitative analysis of the spatial distribution of crimes which usually changes over time. In this paper, we use the concept of exchange mobility across different time periods to determine the spatial ...
Yicheng Tang   +4 more
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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 ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Foreword: The Political Geography of Race Data in the Criminal Justice System [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Several months ago, there was a heated discussion on CrimProf, the listserv for criminal law professors, about the disproportionate representation of minorities in the criminal justice system.
Taslitz, Andrew E.
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One step forward and two steps back to the proper appreciation of spatial science [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Several commentaries on the original paper contributed valuably to one of its goals – promoting discussion about the contents of quantitative methods curricula for human geography undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
Amariglio J   +31 more
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Mobility and distance decay at the aggregated and individual level [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Most crimes are committed near to where the offender lives; this has been observed both at the aggregate and at the offender level. At the aggregate level, as the distance increases there is a decline in the number of offences committed, and initially ...
Van Daele, Stijn
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Ameaça e caráter transnacional do narcotráfico na Amazônia brasileira

open access: yesConfins, 2020
In this second decade of the 21st century, drug trafficking networks have weakened national defense policy on the frontiers, especially in the Amazon region, which places Brazil in a prominent position as a primary route of distribution of cocaine with ...
Aiala Colares Couto
doaj   +1 more source

Geographical and temporal weighted regression (GTWR) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Both space and time are fundamental in human activities as well as in various physical processes. Spatiotemporal analysis and modeling has long been a major concern of geographical information science (GIScience), environmental science, hydrology ...
Andrienko   +39 more
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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   +1 more source

Maltese criminological landscapes : a spatio-temporal case : where physical and social worlds meet [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Landscapes have taken many forms in the real and virtual worlds, placing more emphasis on the geographical perspective, sometimes at the risk of losing the spatio-social perspective.
Digital Landscape Architecture 2010   +1 more
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The Urban Panopticon

open access: yesCambio, 2016
In recent years, the use of closed circuit television (cctv) for surveillance, historically restricted to the private sector, has shown a shift towards the public sector, being implemented in the framework of public policies on crime prevention and ...
Vanesa Lio
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