Measuring perceived racial heterogeneity and its impact on crime: an ambient population-based approach

X Gu, L Liu, M Lan, H Zhou - Cities, 2023 - Elsevier
Social disorganization theory has significantly contributed to understanding the relationship
between community characteristics and crime. It is based on the assumption that the …

Agglomerative effects of crime attractors and generators on street robbery? An assessment by Luojia 1-01 satellite nightlight

L Liu, H Zhou, M Lan - Annals of the American Association of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Scholars have long confirmed the agglomerative effect in retail geography. The colocation of
multiple shops would encourage customers to make multiple stops in a single shopping trip …

Capturing the spatial arrangement of POIs in crime modeling

L Liu, X Gu, M Lan, H Zhou, D Chen, Z Su - Computers, Environment and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Many scholars have established that facilities represented by Points-of-Interests (POIs) may
function as crime generators and attractors, influencing criminal activities. While existing …

Estimates of the ambient population: Assessing the utility of conventional and novel data sources

A Whipp, N Malleson, J Ward… - … International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper will critically assess the utility of conventional and novel data sources for building
fine-scale spatio-temporal estimates of the ambient population. It begins with a review of …

Identification and simulation of traffic crime risk posture within the central city of Wuhan in China

J Xu, W Liao, CS Fong - Second International Conference on …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
This paper used SPSS statistical analysis and GIS spatial analysis to construct an analytical
framework based on urban traffic crime data. The case location record of dangerous driving …

Are Crime and Collective Emotion Interrelated? A “Broken Emotion” Conjecture from Community Twitter Posts

M Lan, L Liu, J Burmeister, W Zhu… - Social Science …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
A neighborhood's social cohesion, referring to the emotional and social connection of
people within it, tends to have an influential impact on its crime level. Traditional approaches …

Different Ways Ambient and Immobile Population Distributions Influence Urban Crime Patterns

N Sypion-Dutkowska, M Lan, M Dutkowski… - … International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The article aims to propose a new way of estimating the ambient and immobile urban
population using geotagged tweets and age structure, and to test how they are related to …

Modeling crime using Activities and sentiment Generated from geotagged tweets

M Lan - 2021 - search.proquest.com
In this dissertation, I show how activities and sentiment derived from tweets are valuable
factors in analyzing urban crime patterns. Big social media data like geotagged tweets …