Do mobile phone data provide a better denominator in crime rates and improve spatiotemporal predictions of crime?

A Rummens, T Snaphaan, N Van de Weghe… - … International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
This article assesses whether ambient population is a more suitable population-at-risk
measure for crime types with mobile targets than residential population for the purpose of …

Understanding the role of mobility in the recorded levels of violent crimes during COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of Tamil Nadu, India

K Paramasivan, S Jaiswal, R Subburaj, N Sudarsanam - Crime Science, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Purpose/Goal This research investigates the potential link between mobility and
violent crimes in Tamil Nadu, India, using an empirical study centred on the COVID-19 …

Criminal nomadism: A neglected dimension of spatial mobility in sex offending

P Michaud, E Beauregard, J Proulx - Journal of criminal justice, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose This study investigates criminal nomadism—an individual's propensity to engage in
continuous or intermittent interurban travel as a way to cope with the consequences of their …

Relationships between offenders' crime locations and different prior activity locations as recorded in police data

S Curtis-Ham, W Bernasco, ON Medvedev… - Journal of Police and …, 2023 - Springer
Understanding the relationships between individual offenders' crime locations and their prior
activity locations is important to enable individual level predictions to support crime …

Land use and sexual harassment: A geospatial analysis based on the volunteer HarassMap‐Egypt

TA Al‐Sabbagh, Y Li, YJ Lee… - Geographical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Sexual harassment and gang rape in Egypt have garnered attention from both traditional
and digital media. This study employed a volunteer HarassMap to analyse sexual …

Simple indicators of crime and police: How big data can be used to reveal temporal patterns

PM Dau, M Dewinter, F Witlox… - European Journal …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This study demonstrates how temporal summary statistics can be a guiding tool for big data
analyses to unravel temporal patterns of crime and police presence. Simple indicator …

Familiar Locations and Similar Activities: Examining the Contributions of Reliable and Relevant Knowledge in Offenders' Crime Location Choices

S Curtis-Ham, W Bernasco… - International …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper examines the recently theorized roles of the reliability and relevance of offenders'
knowledge of locations in their crime location choices. Using discrete choice models, we …

Understanding the geography of rape through the integration of data: Case study of a prolific, mobile serial stranger rapist identified through rape kits

RE Lovell, D Sabo, R Dissell - International journal of environmental …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Environmental criminological research on rape series is an understudied field due largely to
deficiencies in official and publicly available data. Additionally, little is known about the …

The ecology of business environments and consequences for crime

JR Hipp, C Hodgen - Criminology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Research has typically focused on how certain types of business establishments are
associated with the location of crime on street blocks. Studies in this genre, however, often …

Cityscapes at Night: Exploring Nightlife Activities on Urban Crime Dynamics Through Bibliometric Lenses

S Roy, IR Chowdhury - Annals of the American Association of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Cityscapes undergo a profound transformation as night falls, revealing a vibrant tapestry of
leisure and entertainment that becomes the heartbeat of urban life. This nighttime activity …