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  2. This research uses crime scripts to understand adult retribution-style image-based sexual abuse (RS-IBSA) offender decision-making and offending in offline and online environments. We explain the crime-commiss...

    Authors: Abigail C. O’Hara, Ryan K. L. Ko, Lorraine Mazerolle and Jonah R. Rimer

    Citation: Crime Science 2020 9:26

    Content type: Research

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  4. This paper presents the findings from a mixed-methods examination of self-protective behaviours (SPBs) adopted by victims of cyber abuse from the rational choice perspective. The data from a sample of the U.S....

    Authors: Zarina I. Vakhitova, Rob I. Mawby, Clair L. Alston-Knox and Callum A. Stephens

    Citation: Crime Science 2020 9:24

    Content type: Research

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  7. Recent studies exploiting city-level time series have shown that, around the world, several crimes declined after COVID-19 containment policies have been put in place. Using data at the community-level in Chic...

    Authors: Gian Maria Campedelli, Serena Favarin, Alberto Aziani and Alex R. Piquero

    Citation: Crime Science 2020 9:21

    Content type: Research

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  8. Crisis and disruption are often unpredictable and can create opportunities for crime. During such times, policing may also need to meet additional challenges to handle the disruption. The use of social media b...

    Authors: Manja Nikolovska, Shane D. Johnson and Paul Ekblom

    Citation: Crime Science 2020 9:20

    Content type: Research

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  9. The covid-19 disease has a large impact on life across the globe, and this could potentially include impacts on crime. The present study describes how crime has changed in Sweden during ten weeks after the gov...

    Authors: Manne Gerell, Johan Kardell and Johanna Kindgren

    Citation: Crime Science 2020 9:19

    Content type: Research

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  14. A review was conducted to identify possible applications of artificial intelligence and related technologies in the perpetration of crime. The collected examples were used to devise an approximate taxonomy of ...

    Authors: M. Caldwell, J. T. A. Andrews, T. Tanay and L. D. Griffin

    Citation: Crime Science 2020 9:14

    Content type: Research

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  21. Predictive policing and crime analytics with a spatiotemporal focus get increasing attention among a variety of scientific communities and are already being implemented as effective policing tools. The goal of...

    Authors: Ourania Kounadi, Alina Ristea, Adelson Araujo Jr. and Michael Leitner

    Citation: Crime Science 2020 9:7

    Content type: Systematic Review

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  24. We recently rejected the hypothesis that increases in cybercrime may have caused the international crime drop. Critics subsequently argued that offenders switched from physical crime to cybercrime in recent ye...

    Authors: Graham Farrell and Daniel Birks

    Citation: Crime Science 2020 9:4

    Content type: Short Contribution

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  25. Crime, traffic accidents, terrorist attacks, and other space-time random events are unevenly distributed in space and time. In the case of crime, hotspot and other proactive policing programs aim to focus limi...

    Authors: George Mohler, Michael Porter, Jeremy Carter and Gary LaFree

    Citation: Crime Science 2020 9:3

    Content type: Research

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  28. Security and intelligence agencies around the world invest considerable resources in preventing terrorist attacks, as these may cause strategic damage, national demoralization, infringement of sovereignty, and...

    Authors: Gonen Singer and Maya Golan

    Citation: Crime Science 2019 8:14

    Content type: Research

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  29. In this conceptual piece, we argue that the current approach to police performance measurement typically based on the use of traditional police metrics has failed to achieve the desired results and that a diff...

    Authors: Tarah Hodgkinson, Tullio Caputo and Michael L. McIntyre

    Citation: Crime Science 2019 8:13

    Content type: Theoretical Article

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  30. In this paper we question Farrell and Birks’ assertion of the emergence of cybercrime as an invalid explanation for the crime drop. Alternatively to the “cybercrime hypothesis”, we propose two non-exclusive hy...

    Authors: Fernando Miró-Llinares and Asier Moneva

    Citation: Crime Science 2019 8:12

    Content type: Short Contribution

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  32. The presence of civilian witnesses and victims in court is central to the effective operation of the criminal justice system. However, there is evidence of significant non-attendance which can result in ineffe...

    Authors: Evie Monnington-Taylor, Kate Bowers, Pippa Streeter Hurle, Liz Ward, Simon Ruda, Martin Sweeney, Alex Murray and Jo Whitehouse

    Citation: Crime Science 2019 8:10

    Content type: Research

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  33. Wildlife crime is an international issue with the illicit trade of flora and fauna estimated to be worth several billion dollars. In national parks, the problem can often be summarised as an arms race, with po...

    Authors: Hervé Borrion, Amin Amiri, Dorothea Delpech and A. M. Lemieux

    Citation: Crime Science 2019 8:9

    Content type: Research

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  34. Opportunity theories of crime emphasize the non-random spatial and temporal patterning of criminal events. Such theoretical development has proven useful when extended beyond traditional applications to crime ...

    Authors: Hannah Kelly, Joseph Clare, Kathryn Wuschke and Len Garis

    Citation: Crime Science 2019 8:8

    Content type: Research

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  37. Research on crime concentration at micro-places has had a very western-industrialised focus. In this paper we provide results on crime concentration for 42 cities in Latin America. The results suggest that cri...

    Authors: Spencer P. Chainey, Gastón Pezzuchi, Néstor Octavio Guerrero Rojas, José Luis Hernandez Ramirez, Joana Monteiro and Erwin Rosas Valdez

    Citation: Crime Science 2019 8:5

    Content type: Short contribution

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  39. Spam has been increasingly used for malware distribution. This paper analyzed modern spam from an age-comparative perspective to (i) discover the extent to which psychological weapons of influence and life dom...

    Authors: Daniela Seabra Oliveira, Tian Lin, Harold Rocha, Donovan Ellis, Sandeep Dommaraju, Huizi Yang, Devon Weir, Sebastian Marin and Natalie C. Ebner

    Citation: Crime Science 2019 8:3

    Content type: Research

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  41. On 15 September 2015, the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia (BC) implemented a set of by-law and security policy changes in an effort to reduce robberies and burglaries in BC pharmacies. Prior to thes...

    Authors: Martin A. Andresen, Elliott Mann, Tarah Hodgkinson, Stephen Thacker and Bob Nakagawa

    Citation: Crime Science 2019 8:1

    Content type: Research

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  42. This research investigated the association between Internet searches and property crime levels in the United States. States with the highest levels of property crime tended to have the highest levels of Google...

    Authors: Megan S. Stubbs-Richardson, Austin K. Cosby, Karissa D. Bergene and Arthur G. Cosby

    Citation: Crime Science 2018 7:21

    Content type: Research

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  43. The original version of the article contained an error in the funding section and name of an author. The correction funding note should be: This project was funded by the Economic & Social Research Council gra...

    Authors: Matthew Manning, Gabriel T. W. Wong, Timothy Graham, Thilina Ranbaduge, Peter Christen, Kerry Taylor, Richard Wortley, Toni Makkai and Pierre Skorich

    Citation: Crime Science 2018 7:20

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in Crime Science 2018 7:12

  46. The world has seen a dramatic increase in cybercrime, in both the Surface Web, which is the portion of content on the World Wide Web that may be indexed by popular engines, and lately in the Dark Web, a portio...

    Authors: Dario Adriano Bermudez Villalva, Jeremiah Onaolapo, Gianluca Stringhini and Mirco Musolesi

    Citation: Crime Science 2018 7:17

    Content type: Research

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  47. In the computer science field coordinated vulnerability disclosure is a well-known practice for finding flaws in IT-systems and patching them. In this practice, a white-hat hacker who finds a vulnerability in ...

    Authors: Marleen Weulen Kranenbarg, Thomas J. Holt and Jeroen van der Ham

    Citation: Crime Science 2018 7:16

    Content type: Theoretical article

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  50. This paper is an edited version of the speech given upon being awarded the 2018 Stockholm Prize in Criminology. After a brief introduction, the paper describes the concept of problem-oriented policing (POP), f...

    Authors: Herman Goldstein

    Citation: Crime Science 2018 7:13

    Content type: Research

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