BACKGROUND Crime may be a significant barrier to physical activity for urban African American women, yet few studies have examined this relationship in intervention studies. This study examines relationships among neighborhood crime incidents, perceptions of crime and safety, and adherence in a walking intervention among urban, midlife African-American women. METHODS The sample includes 148 w...

The proliferation of mobile handheld devices has made them a viable medium for carrying out a wide range of business activities in areas such as education, agricultural, healthy and security. In the area of security, one major problem hindering crime detection and reporting is lack of efficient communication platform between the police and the general public. Mobile technologies using mobile de...

The authors estimate the relationship between trees and three crime aggre­ gates (all crime, violent crime, and property crime) and two individual crimes (burglary and vandalism) in Portland, Oregon. During the study period (2005­2007), 431 crimes were reported at the 2,813 single­family homes in our sample. In general, the authors find that trees in the public right of way are associated with ...

This paper extends the Pissarides (2000) model of the labor market to include crime and punishment à la Becker (1968). The model is used to study, analytically and quantitatively, the effects of various labor market and crime policies. For instance, a more generous unemployment insurance system reduces the crime rate of the unemployed but its effect on the crime rate of the employed depends on ...

Empirical evidence about the relationship between legal gambling and crime is mixed; some studies find that legalized gambling increases crime and others find no relationship between legalized gambling and crime, controlling for other factors like hotels. We develop a utility maximizing model of time spent in legal work, crime, and leisure and use this model to understand the relationship betwe...

Law enforcement agencies use various crime analysis tools to discover crimes. However, a big volume of crime data has made the process of analyzing crimes difficult. Previously proposed methods only consider improving the productivity of the detectives and other law enforcement agencies. In this paper, we argue that the crime analysis methods should be also useful for citizen, and propose a use...

In a high-crime environment with many high-income citizens, private security companies which off er protection against crime can fl ourish. In this article crime is modelled as a game where richer victims yield a higher return on crime, but with decreasing returns to crime as more criminals choose crime to supplement their income. Private security providers off er protection against crime and f...

For a complete list and the full text of the papers in the Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice series, visit the AIC web site at: Under-reporting of crime to police means not only that police crime records may underestimate the extent of particular crimes but that valuable resources and crime prevention strategies may be aimed at certain crimes because they are reported more frequen...

This paper studies the individual-level relationship between immigration and property crime in England and Wales using crime self-reports from the Crime and Justice Survey. Models that account for underreporting are used, since this is a major concern in crime self-reports. The results indicate that the reported crime is substantially underreported, but if anything, immigrants are less likely t...