The stay-at-home restrictions to control the spread of COVID-19 led to unparalleled sudden change in daily life, but it is unclear how they affected urban crime globally. We collected …
DS Abrams - Journal of public economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Data from 25 large US cities is assembled to estimate the impact of the onset of the COVID- 19 pandemic on crime. There is a widespread immediate drop in both criminal incidents and …
The COVID-19 pandemic has created new opportunities for organized criminal groups and confronted them with new challenges. Analysis of how these groups have reacted to the …
J Nix, TN Richards - Police practice and research, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
We assessed immediate and long-term trends in calls for police service regarding domestic violence following COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. Using open data from the Police Data …
Confronted by rapidly growing infection rates, hospitalizations and deaths, governments around the world have introduced stringent containment measures to help reduce the …
RA Aborisade - International journal of offender therapy and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The COVID-19 pandemic created a myriad of problems including an increase in the cases of gender-based violence, prompting the United Nations Women to refer to the trend as a …
D Buil-Gil, Y Zeng - Journal of Financial Crime, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose Romance fraud refers to situations where an individual is deceived for financial gain by someone with whom the victim perceives to be in a romantic relationship. With the …
S Koppel, JA Capellan, J Sharp - American Journal of Criminal Justice, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Covid-19 stay-at-home restrictions put in place in New York City were followed by an abrupt shift in movement away from public spaces and into the home. This study used …
E Lopez, R Rosenfeld - Criminology & Public Policy, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Research Summary Priorresearch has produced varied results regarding the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on crime rates, depending on the offenses and time …