Looking at these maps recently, one curiosity that struck me was that the map for incarceration rates shows a clear distance-decay pattern (the kind of pattern we older geographers love to find, even if we can’t explain it!). The map is a screenshot of incarceration rates in 2012. The...
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
Have a look at these as they will contain information about how you can use this map. For example, all your maps will have to mention where you got all the data from. So since you got this boundary data from the UKDS, you will have to note the following:</p> <p...
I have no clue what he means and there’s not even a map of Athens with its various neighborhoods in the book. And the heat!! Temperatures in Athens in the summer seem horrible and I read a recent article about the city in Le Monde describing the heat and…the traffic jams. If it ...
As Pete and Kathy wade into a case that no one wants, they also find themselves in the crosshairs of Los Enfermos, a bloodthirsty gang of pro-Castro killers and drug dealers looking to wipe Pete off the Miami map. As if trying to exonerate Varela wasn’t enough, they find themselves en...
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 ...
We can of course simply map out and contrast the levels of concern and fear about different crimes: but though interesting, this is not theoretically satisfying, as we often want to know how and why these arise. Fear, worry, and trust are concepts that are not just free floating or ...
[2009]) ranging from population density (e.g., LondonProfiler.org), to the number of violent crimes in a particular area (e.g., maps.met.police.uk), to the geography of America’s prison industry (e.g., prisonmap.com). A large number of public health studies have looked into the...
The stay-at-home restrictions to control the spread of COVID-19 led to unparalleled sudden change in daily life, but it is unclear how they affected urban crime globally. We collected data on daily counts of crime in 27 cities across 23 countries in the
Not every laboring body is equally likely to be aggressively captured and commodified. These are racialized and gendered processes, which map onto other vertices of human subjectivity like citizenship, able-bodiedness, language proficiency, geographic mobility, and education level. The meatpacking facility...