This paper presents a social agent pedestrian model based on experiments with human subjects. Research studies of criminology and environmental psychology show that certain features of the urban environment generate fear in people, causing them to take alternate routes. The Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) strategy has been implemented to reduce fear of crime and crime itse...

Monogamy tends to equalise mate competition between the sexes. However, women show greater restraint in their use of direct intrasexual aggression, which, I argue, is a result of their higher parental investment and the consequently greater reproductive cost of injury or death. Women usually compete for mates by advertising qualities valued by men (beauty and sexual exclusiveness) and by using ...

The study of narrative processes as part of the immediate factors that shape criminal action is limited by the lack of a methodology for differentiating the narrative themes that characterise specific crime events. The current study explores how the roles offenders see themselves as playing during an offence encapsulate their underlying crime narratives and thus provide the basis for a quantita...

1. OBJECTIVES The overall objective of this proposal is to model and mine geospatial (GS) patterns in multijurisdiction and multi-temporal (MJMT) datasets to accurately track, monitor, and predict human activities. Several scientific and technical challenges arise when modeling GS patterns in MJMT datasets due to the spatio-temporal nature and heterogeneity of datasets. These represent major ba...

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