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 …

In a high-tech command center in downtown Los Angeles, a digital map lights up with 911
calls, television monitors track breaking news stories, surveillance cameras sweep the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Patterns are the epistemological core of predictive policing. With the move towards digital
prediction tools, the authority of the pattern is rearticulated and reinforced in police work …

Highly clustered event sequences are observed in certain types of crime data, such as
burglary and gang violence, due to crime-specific patterns of criminal behavior. Similar …

The Fourth Amendment requires" reasonable suspicion" to stop a suspect. 3 As a general
matter, police officers develop this suspicion based on information they know or activities …

Routine activity theory predicts that changes in legitimate opportunity structures (eg,
technology) can increase the convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets in the …