Decision-making processes are increasingly based on intelligence gained from 'big data', ie,
extensive but complex datasets. This evolution of analyzing complex data using methods …

Evidence-based policing is a method of making decisions about “what works” in policing:
which practices and strategies accomplish police missions most cost-effectively. In contrast …

Background Several past studies have found that media reports of suicides and homicides
appear to subsequently increase the incidence of similar events in the community …

The study of crime has focused primarily on why particular people commit crime or why
specific communities have higher crime levels than others. In The Criminology of Place …

This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments
around the world have started to use data-driven applications to produce crime forecasts …

In this article, we join three distinct literatures on crime control—the deterrence literature, the
policing literature as it relates to crime control, and the environmental and opportunity …

Crime and Everyday Life, Fourth Edition, provides an illuminating glimpse into roots of
criminal behavior, explaining how crime can touch us all in both small and large ways. This …

Both those who study crime and those who fight it agree that crime is not spread evenly
across city landscapes. Rather, clusters of crime--a few" hot spots"--host a vastly …

Objectives To test the generalizability of previous crime and place trajectory analysis
research on a different geographic location, Vancouver BC, and using alternative methods …

Recent research in the ''crime at places''literature is concerned with smaller units of analysis
than conventional spatial criminology. An important issue is whether the spatial patterns …