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  3. The existing empirical evidence suggests a reduction in aggregate crime as a consequence of the COVID-19 lockdown. However, what happens when lockdown measures are relaxed? This paper considers how the COVID-1...

    Authors: Jose Roberto Balmori de la Miyar, Lauren Hoehn-Velasco and Adan Silverio-Murillo

    Citation: Crime Science 2021 10:14

    Content type: Research

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  4. The Syrian Civil War created an opportunity for increased trafficking of antiquities and has resulted in a renewed awareness on the part of a global audience. The persistence of criminal and organisational net...

    Authors: Christine A. Weirich

    Citation: Crime Science 2021 10:13

    Content type: Research

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  6. Expected crime rates that enable police forces to contrast recorded and anticipated spatial patterns of crime victimisation offer a valuable tool in evaluating the under-reporting of crime and inform/guide cri...

    Authors: James Hunter, Bethany Ward, Andromachi Tseloni and Ken Pease

    Citation: Crime Science 2021 10:11

    Content type: Research

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  7. Gun violence can negatively affect business activity at the place-level through a variety of mechanisms. However, estimating this effect is difficult since reported crime data are biased by factors that are al...

    Authors: Christina Stacy, Yasemin Irvin-Erickson and Emily Tiry

    Citation: Crime Science 2021 10:10

    Content type: Research

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  11. Governments around the world have enforced strict guidelines on social interaction and mobility to control the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Evidence has begun to emerge which suggests that such dramatic chang...

    Authors: Samuel Langton, Anthony Dixon and Graham Farrell

    Citation: Crime Science 2021 10:6

    Content type: Research

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  13. Worry about COVID-19 is a central topic of research into the social and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we present a new way of measuring worry about catching COVID-19 that disti...

    Authors: Reka Solymosi, Jonathan Jackson, Krisztián Pósch, Julia A. Yesberg, Ben Bradford and Arabella Kyprianides

    Citation: Crime Science 2021 10:4

    Content type: Research

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  15. Crime pattern theory and the related empirical research have remained rather a-temporal, as if the timing of routine activities and crime plays no role. Building on previous geography of crime research, we ext...

    Authors: Sabine E. M. van Sleeuwen, Stijn Ruiter and Wouter Steenbeek

    Citation: Crime Science 2021 10:2

    Content type: Research

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  17. 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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  19. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  29. 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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  35. There is general agreement that the frequency of crime decreases with the distance from the offender’s home. By way of exception to this distance decay pattern, the buffer zone hypothesis states that offenders...

    Authors: Wim Bernasco and Remco van Dijke

    Citation: Crime Science 2020 9:8

    Content type: Systematic Review

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    The Retraction Note to this article has been published in Crime Science 2021 10:8

  36. 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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  39. 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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  40. 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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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. 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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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49. 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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