Calling the Police: Theoretical Insights and Practical Implications
Edited by David Buil-Gil and Laura Huey
This special issue will comprise a set of articles advancing theoretical explanations of crime reporting behavior and studying the practical implications of under-reporting for the criminal justice system.
Covid-19 and Crime: consequences for incidence, public safety, security, and prevention
Edited by Kate Bowers, Aiden Sidebottom, and Matthew Ashby
The Covid-19 pandemic has been imposing unprecedented global restrictions on everyday life routines, affecting behavior on a global scale. This collection of articles will focus on the pandemic’s potential consequences on crime, including incidence, public safety, security, and prevention.
Cybercrime: interdisciplinary approaches to cutting crime and victimisation in cyber space
Edited by Shujun Li, Michael Levi, David Maimon, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Gianluca Stringhini
This special issue is one of the first attempts to bring together cybercrime researchers from different fields by encouraging them to publish papers on cutting cybercrime that can benefit researchers and practitioners from a wider spectrum including crime science and computer science. The ubiquitous use of the Internet and smart mobile devices in people’s everyday lives, the wide adoption of cloud based services and the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), the Internet of Everything (IoE), and the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), lead to the widely accepted belief that almost all criminal activities have some cyber elements. As a consequence, digital forensics (or cyber forensics) have become an essential part of almost all crime investigation processes of law enforcement around the world.
Beyond 'What Works': Advancing Understanding of Crime through Systematic Reviews
Edited by Rob Guerette
Since their origins in the health sciences, systematic reviews and meta-analyses in criminology have largely been focused on the effectiveness of various interventions in preventing crimes and other problem behavior. Yet the strength of systematic reviews also makes them useful for synthesizing and improving our understanding of crime more in general, such as environmental aspects, its patterns, organization, and explanation.
Child Sexual Abuse: Analysis and Intervention
Edited by Dr. Danielle Reynald, Dr. Ella Cockbain
This Crime Science’s first special edition on child sexual abuse brings together leading researchers and practitioners worldwide. It is designed to increase awareness of and interest in theoretical, empirical and practical developments in child protection and the prevention of child sexual abuse.
Collection published: 30 July 2015
Crime in Developing Countries
Edited by Dr. Mangai Natarajan
It could be argued that many of the most serious crime problems are now to be found in developing countries. Yet these problems have received only scant attention from criminologists and crime scientists, most of who work in developed/Westernized nations. Crime scientists have a special role to play in studying these crimes because their work is oriented to solutions and it is this kind of practical help that the developing world most needs.
Collection published: 25 July 2015
Crime Patterns in Time and Space: The Dynamics of Crime Opportunities in Urban Areas
Edited by Dr. Andrew Newton, Mr. Marcus Felson
This collection of papers seeks to round out our knowledge of how hotspots and crime patterns shift. This special issue contains papers that examine the dynamic nature of crime patterns, determining whether crime concentrations shift in the course of a day, from weekday to weekend, from school day to non-school day, or even across seasons.
Collection published: 28 April 2015
Innovative Methods in Crime Research
Edited by Dr Jean-Louis van Gelder, Dr Stijn Van Daele
Novel technologies, such as GPS, the Internet and virtual environments are not only rapidly becoming an increasingly influential part of our daily lives, they also have tremendous potential for improving our understanding of where, when and why crime occurs. In addition to these technologies, several innovative research methods, such as neuropsychological measurements and time-space budgets, have emerged in recent years.
Collection published: 12 August 2014
2013 Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis (ECCA) Symposium
Edited by Prof Jerry Ratcliffe
This special series contains selected papers from the 2013 Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis symposium held in Philadelphia, PA (USA) and hosted by the Center for Security and Crime Science at Temple University.
Collection published: 22 September 2013