Glimmers of Cosmopolitan Criminology

Computational Criminology

In this report, we present our work done in spring 2011 on the UK crimes dataset. This dataset was first released in December 2010, and contains reports of crimes committed in England and Wales, with their type and location. We first perform some exploratory analysis on this data, by looking at the correlation of crime rates with some independent variables, such as the population density or the...

Psychiatry and Criminology

Glimmers of a Pre-geometric Perspective

Space-time measurements and gravitational experiments are made by using objects , matter fields or particles and their mutual relationships. As a consequence, any operationally meaningful assertion about space-time is in fact an assertion about the degrees of freedom of the matter (i.e. non gravitational) fields; those, say for definiteness, of the Standard Model of particle physics. As for any...

Glimmers of hope on the Ebola front

Daniel Bausch has been assisting with patient care during the current Ebola virus disease outbreak in western Africa and - as part of a WHO-led international collaboration - is exploring the possible use of experimental therapies and vaccines. He tells Fiona Fleck why this outbreak is different.

Criminology of Computer Crime

With the huge growth in computer connectivity and usage over the last decade there has never been such a wealth of opportunity for prospective criminals. While motives tend not to change, the variety and number of opportunities for cyber crime are constantly growing (Grabosky, 2000). Given the increase in computer and internet-based crime, it is surprising to note that “there have been very few...