Results
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Crime Trends and Micro Places
Many reported robberies are distributed unevenly. Understanding micro places can help security and business professionals better allocate security resources.
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What Is the Most Accurate Measure of Crime?
What is the difference between crime counts and crime rates, and which is more accurate when assessing crime risk across geographical regions?
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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
Harvard and Yale researchers studied what insights and interventions can be found by approaching gun violence through the same lens as a disease epidemic.
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Inflation and Crime
Statistics 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
The impact of crime on many dimensions of mental health, such as psychological distress, decreased quality of life, and erosion of trust in authorities.
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Response Time
Early studies of police response time produced counterintuitive results. Newer research shows a stronger link between response time and clearance rate.
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Gaps in the Data
Measuring crime risk in any country is uniquely challenging. In Mexico, we 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
A new study analyzes how foreclosures and vacancies foster violent crime at the neighborhood level and how this effect worsens with prolonged vacancy.
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Violence on the Mind
Violent crime causes collateral damage by spreading fear, trauma and uncertainty across a community. A new study examines the extent of violence’s reach.
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The Seasonality of Crime
Crime seasonality is among the oldest ideas in scientific criminology. Modern study has advanced understanding of the mechanisms and controllable factors.
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Pollution and Aggravative Assaults
New studies join an increasing volume of academic research to show air pollution’s adverse societal and health effects – including violent crime.
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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?
Organizations need a comprehensive approach to risk mitigation that works to prevent a data breach from happening and has fail-safes in place to recover.
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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.