Crime detection is one of the major issues in the field of criminology. In fact, criminology includes knowing the details of a crime and its intangible relations with the offender. In spite of the enormous amount of data on offenses and offenders, and the complex and intangible semantic relationships between this information, criminology has become one of the most important areas in the field o...

Various factors affect the degree of mass crime of an environment, including social, economic, and physical factors. The purpose of this research is to investigate the role of the physical components of an environment on mass crime rate. In this regard, open spaces between residential complexes were selected as the case studies and based on five outdoor patterns including linear pattern, disper...

EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION. From mass incarceration to targeted policing: Introduction to the Special Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Richard Rosenfeld EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. Overview of “Imprisonment and crime: Can both be reduced?” . . . . . . 9 Steven N. Durlauf, Daniel S. Nagin RESEARCH ARTICLE. Impr...

PURPOSE To investigate pathways in the association between fear of crime and obesity. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey was administered among residents aged 18 years and older across all Census tracts. SETTING Genesee County, Michigan. SUBJECTS A total of 3192 residents. MEASURES Body mass index (BMI) was calculated by using the respondents' reported height and weight. Composite fear-of-...

This paper proposes a STT(spatio-temporal-textual) search engine for extracting, indexing, querying and visualizing crime information. Until recently, it’s a labor-intensive work to identify crime entities, cluster similar suspect activities, and discover patterns from massive online collections. It’s a big challenge to reveal inherent ST(spatio-temporal) correlations among mass crime informati...

According to popular perception, public transit spreads crime. This belief is often a major reason for opposing expansion of urban mass transit systems. However, the existing empirical literature finds little evidence in support of this theory. We address this question using a novel identification strategy based on temporary, maintenance-related closures of stations in the Washington, DC rail t...

In order to assess the role of fear of crime in Americans' political opinions and candidate attitudes, the NES pilot planning committee designed a new fear of crime question. In this report, we examine the origins of fear of crime and its direct and indirect effects on political opinions and evaluations. We find that fear of crime has different origins depending on whether one is engaged or not...

This chapter examines the role of social inequality in crime and deviance by specifying a social psychological theory of the causal mechanisms by which inequality is associated with crime. We begin by noting that the powerful have more input into the content of criminal law, a point illustrated by the relatively soft penalties for white collar and corporate crimes compared to the harsh penaltie...

In August 2006, the Italian government released one-third of the nation’s prison inmates via a national collective pardon. We test for a discontinuous break in national crime rates corresponding to the mass release. We also test for the effect of the return of the incarceration rate to its predicted steady state level on national crime rates. Finally, we exploit regional variation in prison rel...

BACKGROUND Although crime and perceived safety are associated with obesity and body mass index (BMI), the pathways are less clear. Two likely pathways by which crime and perceived safety may impact obesity are through distress and physical activity. METHODS We examined data from 2013 to 2014 for 644 predominantly African-American adults (mean age 57 years; 77% female) living in low-income Pit...