Over the past decade, a considerable literature has emerged within criminology stemming
from the collection of social network data and the adoption of social network analysis by a …

Whereas one line of recent neighborhood research has placed an emphasis on zooming
into smaller units of analysis such as street blocks, another line of research has suggested …

Standard epidemiological models for COVID-19 employ variants of compartment (SIR or
susceptible–infectious–recovered) models at local scales, implicitly assuming spatially …

Nowadays, 23% of the world population lives in multi-million cities. In these metropolises,
criminal activity is much higher and violent than in either small cities or rural areas. Thus …

Drawing on the social disorganization tradition and the social ecological perspective of Jane
Jacobs, the authors hypothesize that neighborhoods composed of residents who intersect in …

Social media provides increasing opportunities for users to voluntarily share their thoughts
and concerns in a large volume of data. While user-generated data from each individual …

Exponential random graph models (ERGM) have been widely applied in the social sciences
in the past 10 years. However, diagnostics for ERGM have lagged behind their use …

In this article, we explore the literature on collective efficacy and crime, but pay attention to
three major challenges that confront this literature, and researchers moving forward with the …

Places of worship (POW) have traditionally been argued to have crime-reducing effects in
neighborhoods because of their ability to produce social capital. Yet, the evidence for this …

Criminologists have long noted that social networks play a role in influencing residents' fear
of crime, but findings vis a vis the exact nature of that role have been mixed. More social ties …