Criminologists and crime prevention practitioners are increasingly aware of the importance of places of crime. A place is a very small area, usually a street corner, address, building, or street segment. A focus on crime places contrasts with a focus on neighborhoods. Neighborhood theories usually highlight the development of offenders. while place level explanations emphasize crime events. Thr...

The mechanisms driving the nucleation, spread, and dissipation of crime hotspots are poorly understood. As a consequence, the ability of law enforcement agencies to use mapped crime patterns to design crime prevention strategies is severely hampered. We also lack robust expectations about how different policing interventions should impact crime. Here we present a mathematical framework based on...

From one election to another, crime remains one of the biggest social and political issues, and it is a favourite subject of campaign promises by politicians. Crime imposes large costs onto society which are not taken into account by official measures of well-being and happiness of the nations. In addition, crime responds to economic conditions and incentives, which is well accepted among econo...

Recent studies have produced conflicting findings about the impacts of local nonresidential land uses on perceived incivilities. This study advances work in this area by developing a land-use perspective theoretically grounded in Brantingham and Brantingham’s geometry of crime model in environmental criminology. That focus directs attention to specific classes of land uses and suggests relevanc...

Urban crime has increasingly become a major issue for Chinese cities. Using crime data collected at police precincts in 2008, the main aim of this research is to examine the spatial distribution of property crime which accounted for almost 82% of all crimes in the city of Changchun, and analyze the relationship between the spatial patterns of property crime and neighborhood characteristics. Sta...

Cressey’s [1] fraud triangle examined the motivation for crime. McMahon et al. [2] suggest there is a need to move beyond the traditional fraud triangle to fight white-collar crime. In this article, we suggest a white-crime triangle which includes financial motive, organizational opportunity and deviant behavior. The suggested white-collar crime triangle is based on convenience theory [3], wher...

This paper suggests a novel clustering method for analyzing the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) data, which include the determination of correlation of different crime types, the development of a likelihood index for crimes to occur in a jurisdiction, and the clustering of jurisdictions based on crime type. The method was tested by using the 2005 assault data from 121 jurisdict...

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...