Attitude to crime and crime reporting in urban residents

Environmental factors and urban crime

Urban Environment planning can prevent abnormal behaviors, crime and felony in urban places by identifying effective local features and environmental conditions, along with other actions, so that the felon would have much less opportunities for committing criminal and unlawful acts in urban areas. This article is part of the outcomes of a study project called “formulation of environmental crite...

Crime Reporting: Profiling and Neighbourhood Observation

We consider the effect of giving incentives to ordinary citizens to report potential criminal activity. Additionally we look at the effect of ‘profiling’ and biased reporting. If police single out or profile a group for more investigation, then crime in the profiled group decreases. If a certain group is reported on more frequently through biased reporting by citizens, crime in the group report...

Mobile Phone Data to Evaluate Urban Crime

! Prior work in architectural and urban studies suggests that there is a strong correlation between people dynamics and crime activities in an urban environment. These studies have been conducted primarily using qualitative evaluation methods, and as such are limited in terms of the geographic area they cover, the number of respondents they reach out to, and the temporal frequency with which th...

Urbanization and Urban crime in Bangladesh

A Sociological Approach to the Women's Perception of Fear of Crime in Urban Spaces

Fear of crime is a very prevalent issue today. It challenges the safety of cities. For this reason it has gained considerable attention among the sociologists and criminologists over the last 20 years. Whilst men experiencing relatively high rates of violence, they report their fear of crime less than women. In the contrary women have a much greater fear of crime than men, but are victimized le...