The impact of violence on the population's health profile in large Brazilian cities is a real concern and has been incorporated into the country's public health agenda. Although violent crimes affect the entire population, they are distributed unequally in the city. In this context, analytical tools to evaluate the risk and spatial distribution of homicide are important for surveillance and pre...

Crime reduction remains a critical challenge in modern societies. Thus, identifying regions in a city with an elevated risk for future crimes is of high interest to plan prevention strategies. Attempts have been made to apply various statistical and machine learning techniques to predict crime, while computational methods such as agent-based modeling (ABM) can account for the offender and its i...

This paper estimates the effect of physical violence and property crimes on subjective well-being in Australia. Our methodology improves on previous contributions by (i) controlling for the endogeneity of victimisation and (ii) analysing the heterogeneous effect of victimisation along the whole distribution of well-being. Using fixed effects panel estimation, we find that both types of crimes r...

OBJECTIVE The hypothesis of a lunar influence on human abnormal behavior is still widespread, although research has led to conflicting findings. Therefore, a population-based study to assess the influence of lunar phases on violent crimes was conducted. METHODS The study included all serious crimes of battery (aggravated assaults) committed in Middle Franconia (Bavaria, Germany) between 1999 ...

Asians, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders were victims of approximately 105,000 nonfatal violent crimes (rape, sexual assault, aggravated assault, and simple assault) on average per year between 2002 and 2006. An average of about 471,000 property crimes (household burglary, motor vehicle theft, and theft) were committed against Asian, Native Hawaiian, and other Pacific Islander hous...

One of the most dangerous crimes that compromise socio-economical and political securities of the society is electronic crimes that have been manifested in the world era with its modern forms simultaneously with development in science and technology so the only condition for fighting against modern crimes and their prevention is to identify, analyze and recognize completely how they are committ...

Due to the inherent discrete nature of sensing, interpolation is a key activity in sensing. Interpolation in urban computing faces an unprecedented inference issue that was not present in large scale traditional sensing environments. Obstacles such as buildings and walls are prevalent in urban sensing, and it is important to consider them in urban sensing interpolation. This paper introduces an...

Research demonstrates that police reduce crime. The implication of this research for investment in a particular form of extra police services, those provided by private institutions, has not been rigorously examined. We capitalize on the discontinuity in police force size at the geographic boundary of a private university police department to estimate the effect of the extra police services on ...

Violence shows strong disparities between regions and time. The most obvious explanation for such disparities is that both economic and social conditions change over regions and time. However, it is found that less than 50% of the variance of crime is explained by economic and deterrence variables. One of the possible explanations for such puzzle may be the existence of social interaction acros...

Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) is a federally funded initiative that brings together federal, state, and local law enforcement to reduce gun violence in urban centers. In Chicago, PSN implemented supply-side gun policing tactics, enhanced federal prosecution of gun crimes, and notification forums warning offenders of PSN’s heightened criminal sanctions. Prior evaluations provide evidence that...