The proliferation of mobile handheld devices has made them a viable medium for carrying out a wide range of business activities in areas such as education, agricultural, healthy and security. In the area of security, one major problem hindering crime detection and reporting is lack of efficient communication platform between the police and the general public. Mobile technologies using mobile de...

Criminologists are becoming increasingly aware of the important role that “place” plays in crime occurrences [23]. However, the relationship between crime and the physical environment is complex [11]. It has been shown that the physical form of an area, including natural features and the design of the built environment, has a significant impact on local communities and on crime in those communi...

Our paper investigates the relationship between neighborhood racial composition and perceptions residents have of their neighborhood’s level of crime. We use survey questions asking about perceptions of neighborhood crime from the 1978 Chicago Crime Factors and Neighborhood Decline study, the 1990 Testing Theories of Criminality and Victimization in Seattle study, and the 1994 Crime Changes in ...

Over the past thirty years, crime rates in cities across the United States initially increased and then declined precipitously, in many cases, reaching historic lows. At the same time, the share of the foreign born among the U.S. population has increased rapidly, with the foreign-born Mexican share of the population quadrupling since 1980. The majority of the increase in immigration has taken p...

Aims: Alcohol-related crime is a substantial community problem. There is evidence to suggest that certain geographic areas experience higher rates of alcohol-related crime and that both individual and community factors are associated with alcoholrelated crime. There is limited research at the community level despite communities being the target of interventions designed to reduce alcohol-relate...

Does a dramatic drop in crime lead to an increase in property values? To date, the literature on how crime influences property values has focused solely within a single metropolitan area and has been limited primarily to cross-sectional analysis. In this study we exploit the dramatic, nationwide decrease in crime that occurred in the 1990s to examine the relationship between changes in crime ra...

In this paper we explore some of the various issues that may occur in attempting to fit a dynamical systems (either agentor continuum-based) model of urban crime to data on just the attack times and locations. We show how one may carry out a regression analysis for the model described by [M.B. Short, M.R. DOrsogna, V. B. Pasour, G. E. Tita, P. Jeffrey Brantingham, A. L. Bertozzi, and L. B. Chay...

How does public access to criminal records affect crime? Economic theory suggests that expanding access to criminal information may increase the cost of crime to potential criminals by endangering their future work prospects and thus act as a deterrent. However, increased provision of information could also obstruct ex-convicts from finding legal employment and lead to higher recidivism rates. ...