Chapter 4 Crime, Offenders, and Victims In this chapter, we discuss examples of crime trends in areas on the rural-urban continuum in several countries, illustrating the difficulties and possible danger of comparison between types of statistics and across countries. Types of offenders found in ...
However, statistics also show that the gender gap is closing. Near the end of the 1990s, arrests of women comprised about 22 percent of all arrests (with women accounting for about 14 percent of violent offenders and about 29 percent of property-related crime offenders), according to the U....
Looking ahead, innovations such as Vehicle-to-Brain (V2B) (Freeman, 2018) are designed to improve the driving experience through the vehicle user’s brain activity. Fig. 2 Vehicle to everything (V2X) communications Full size image Methodology Four systematic literature searches were conducted. ...
Gentrification & Crime: Empirical Investigation Across American Cities Alessandro Corvasce∗ 2023 Abstract This paper examines the impact of gentrification on criminal activity in urban neighborhoods to determine whether this process has a detrimental effect on communities. The study utilizes a newly-...
Despite much the stricter gun laws, there’s been a rise in crime and a steady growth in the number of murderers in our major cities. There’s also been a rise in synagogue attacks, and a rise in mass murders. These folks kill many in one day or as part of gang-drug activity. St...
"They did not disclose their actual shortage statistics," he added. "They talked about it in general terms; they did not disclose any other factors that would have caused them to decide to close any of those stores. They implied that the only reason they were closing the stores was because...
The setting of these values is determined by the characteristics of the process under investigation (for instance, the number of houses in a city, or the ratio between citizens and guardians can be inspired by statistics on the actual situation). However, it is also possible to set the ...
Patterns of residual autocorrelation were evaluated by inspecting the partial autocorrelation function and autocorrelation function plots. Once any autoregressive and moving average processes were identified and accounted for in the model, these plots, as well as multivariate portmanteau (Q) statistics, were...
But Toronto has a lot of criminal activity going on such as organized crime, human trafficking, drug dealing and gangs fighting turf wars. Sure, the Canadians tell us that the crime situation in Toronto is not as bad as southside Chicago or in the hoods of Compton, but do we really nee...
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