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Crime Trends and Micro Places
An increasing body of research has demonstrated that significant percentages of crimes occur at a limited number of addresses or street segments. These micro places are smaller than police precincts, neighborhoods, or census tracts, the more common spatial units used by criminologists, economists, and data scientists to analyze community life.
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What Is the Most Accurate Measure of Crime?
In the world of criminology, there is a statistical relationship between the volume of crime and population. But these numbers alone give us an incomplete picture. When assessing crime risk across geographies, it is important to consider crime rates as opposed to crime counts.
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Pandemic Crime Statistics
Among numerous challenging and newsworthy events defining 2020, a complex story unfolded concerning crime. Widespread stay-at-home orders brought public life and usual day-to-day economic activities to a near stand-still. These changes provided a widescale natural experiment regarding human movement, day-to-day patterns, and their influences on various crimes.
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The Epidemic of Gun Violence
More than 200 people were murdered or assaulted with a firearm daily in the United States between 2006 and 2014. With numbers like this, gun violence in America is frequently referred to in media and rhetoric as an epidemic, but what insights and interventions can be afforded by approaching gun violence through the same lens as an actual disease epidemic?
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Inflation and Crime
Researchers from diverse fields continuously seek statistical information that can forecast crime rates. Such efforts generate insights of societal and economic factors that contribute to criminal incentives that produce a greater number of criminal offenders.
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Mental Health and Crime
We examine the impact of crime among many dimensions of mental health, including psychological distress, decreased quality of life, and the erosion of trust in authorities.
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Response Time
Policing agencies are naturally concerned with quickly responding to calls for service. Rapid police response can prevent violence, facilitate the gathering of information and evidence, and potentially increase the likelihood of capturing an offender.
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Gaps in the Data
Measuring crime risk in any country is uniquely challenging. When we set out to produce a meaningful assessment of crime risk in Mexico, we quickly encountered severe underreporting in the Official Crime Statistics.
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Target Selection
Criminology has long sought to understand how motivated offenders choose their targets and what locations seem to attract criminality.
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Building a Better Crime Score
While the COVID pandemic is far from over, the rollout of vaccines continues to herald the promise of a healthier and (eventually COVID-free) world.
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Vacancy and Crime
Residential foreclosures and vacancies negatively impact both displaced families and the surrounding neighborhood. Research by Professors Lin Cui and Randall Walsh published in the Journal of Urban Economics analyzes how foreclosures and related vacancies foster violent crime at the neighborhood level, and how this effect worsens with prolonged vacancy.
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Violence on the Mind
In addition to bodily harm and loss of life, violent crime brings about collateral damage as it spreads fear, trauma, and uncertainty across a community. Social scientists have long been concerned with evaluating and understanding these additional costs and the extent of violence’s reach into a community.
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The Seasonality of Crime
The seasonality of crime is an often referred to and taken for granted aspect of modern criminology. The relation of crime rates to the seasons, and analysis into the various cofactors that might exacerbate or attenuate crime at a specific time of year, has been a topic of statistical analysis and academic interest since the 1800s.
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Pollution and Aggravative Assaults
New research shows that violent crime is aggravated by air pollution. This follows an increasing volume of academic research establishing air pollution’s adverse societal and health effects.
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What Security Implications Can a Truck Driver Shortage Cause?
It’s one of the frustrating ironies of a strong and increasingly interconnected global marketplace: growing demand for transportation and logistics services has outpaced the supply of capable and experienced truck drivers.
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How Can Your Organization Recover After a Data Breach?
In 2017, a months-long data breach into credit reporting agency Equifax exposed the personal information of more than 143 million Americans. As reported in the media, a number of internal errors led to the hack–including out-of-date software, failure to conduct routine security reviews and refusal to adopt widely used best practices.
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Cloud Storage: Where Does It Go?
Data takes up space, and it needs a retrievable system to manage it. Storage, backup, disaster recovery and archiving are all elements that are essential to most organizations. There are currently choices available for maintaining your data storage; you can keep it in-house, or have it live on a cloud. Technological advances have enabled everything to exist outside of the infrastructure boundaries of your company. Cloud service providers can do it all for you, creating an agile and dynamic customizable solution to fit your needs. There are naturally some concerns that occur whenever something of value leaves the premises. To decide on the best approach for your organization, it is wise to dive a little deeper into the layers of cloud storage, from concept to lock down. We will go there in this article.