Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

Containing the spread of crime in urban societies remains a major challenge. Empirical
evidence suggests that, if left unchecked, crimes may be recurrent and proliferate. On the …

This paper proposes a review focused on exotic chemotaxis and cross-diffusion models in
complex environments. The term exotic is used to denote the dynamics of models interacting …

The concentration of police resources in stable crime hotspots has proven effective in
reducing crime, but the extent to which police can disrupt dynamically changing crime …

We discuss models and data of crowd disasters, crime, terrorism, war and disease
spreading to show that conventional recipes, such as deterrence strategies, are often not …

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 …

Chemotaxis is a fundamental guidance mechanism of cells and organisms, responsible for
attracting microbes to food, embryonic cells into developing tissues, immune cells to …

Within any type of system, the actors in the system inevitably compete over resources. With
competition comes the possibility of conflict. To minimize such effects, actors often will …

" Risk terrain modeling (RTM) diagnoses the spatial attractors of criminal behavior and
makes accurate predictions of where crime will occur at the micro-level. This book presents …

The importance of spatial clusters, or “hotspots,” in infectious disease epidemiology has
been increasingly recognized, and targeting hotspots is often seen as an important …