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 …

Uncovering the structure of socioeconomic systems and timely estimation of socioeconomic
status are significant for economic development. The understanding of socioeconomic …

Understanding the causes of crime is a longstanding issue in researcher's agenda. While it
is a hard task to extract causality from data, several linear models have been proposed to …

The prevalence of many urban phenomena changes systematically with population size. We
propose a theory that unifies models of economic complexity, and cultural evolution to derive …

We report on a quantitative analysis of relationships between the number of homicides,
population size and ten other urban metrics. By using data from Brazilian cities, we show …

Crime is a major threat to society's well-being but lacks a statistical characterization that
could lead to uncovering some of its underlying mechanisms. Evidence of nonlinear scaling …

We investigate at the subscale of the neighborhoods of a highly populated city the incidence
of property crimes in terms of both the resident and the floating population. Our results show …

Various studies present different mathematical models of ordinary and fractional differential
equations to reduce delinquent behavior and encourage prosocial growth. However, these …

More than a half of world population is now living in cities and this number is expected to be
two-thirds by 2050. Fostered by the relevancy of a scientific characterization of cities and for …

Crime rates per capita are used virtually everywhere to rank and compare cities. However,
their usage relies on a strong linear assumption that crime increases at the same pace as …