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Social media posts incorporate real-time information that has, elsewhere, been exploited to predict social trends. This paper considers whether such information can be useful in relation to crime and fear of crime. A large number of tweets were collected
The map is by no means perfect. For instance, regions of high activity are obscured by the overlay itself. We can try to limit this effect by limiting the alpha value to .9 (say) instead of 1; however, the more we limit the alpha value, the less useful the weather overlay becom...
The accolades put him firmly on the map for years to come, culminating in an Oscar win in 1960 for The Apartment. Wilder uses a clever insurance “double indemnity” clause as its title, making it one of the best and most influential crime dramas of the 1940s, staking ground for other ...
Psychologists have used Google Maps to collect information on places visited by participants in a study on daily activity (Wolf et al. [2013]). In addition to keeping a diary of places they visited during the study and being monitored via GPS, participants were required to pinpoint the ...
The growth of illicit networks and organized crime in Africa are interwoven into the narrative of independence and statehood on the African Continent. In Africa, as with the world as a whole, criminal activity has integrated itself into the legitimate economy, and the line between legitimate and...
attention away from the drugs-related violence, arguing that press coverage only serves to give more publicity to the bad guys. Unfortunately, that decision means that it has now become next to impossible to get regularly updated data for, or be able to map, the patterns of criminal activity...
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Numerous studies have shown that rates of criminal behavior among young adults drop when their communities provide them with other ways to spend their time and earn money. This was found to be true in Los Angeles, where gang activity was reduced when community centers for teens were thriving an...
Across cities, the rapid deceleration of urban activity had comparable effects on similar crime categories, despite variation in size, geographic location and social structure. The average reduction was smallest for homicide with −14%. It was largest for robbery and theft with −46% and −47...