The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is a major crime survey for the United States. The survey collects data on several types of crimes, including the broad categories of violent crime and property crime. The 2010 redesign of the NCVS can potentially improve the efficiency of the survey if the level of crime can be predicted well by external data. Previously, we reported initial succe...

How secure people feel in a particular region is obviously linked to the actual crime suffered in that region but the exact relationship between crime and its fear is quite subtle. Two regions may have the same crime rate but their local perception of security may differ. Equally, two places may have the same perception of security even though one may have a significantly lower crime rate. Furt...

The larger roles of the community in crime prevention and improvements in technology have increased policeYcitizen communication and the distribution of information from police departments to private citizens. Combined, these changes have led to the current movement among law enforcement agencies toward sharing both summary reports and maps of crime with community groups. Although the dissemina...

Indirect psychological effects induced by crime are likely to contribute significantly to the total costs of crime beyond the financial costs of direct victimization. Using detailed crime statistics for the whole of Germany and linking them to individual-level mental health information from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze whether local crime rates affect the mental health of residen...

Abstract—Women are most vulnerable to crime despite occupying central position in shaping a society as the first teacher of children. In India too, having equal rights and constitutional safeguards, the incidences of crime against them are large and grave. In this context of crime against women, especially rape has been increasing over time. This paper explores the spatial and temporal aspects ...

Indirect psychological eff ects induced by crime are likely to contribute signifi cantly to the total costs of crime beyond the fi nancial costs of direct victimization. Using detailed crime statistics for the whole of Germany and linking them to individual-level mental health information from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze whether local crime rates aff ect the mental health of res...

Crime pattern analysis (CPA) is the process of analytical reasoning facilitated by an understanding about the nature of an underlying spatial framework that generates crime. For example, law enforcement agencies may seek to identify regions of sudden increase in crime activity, namely, crime outbreaks. Many analytical tools facilitate this reasoning process by providing support for techniques s...

OBJECTIVE Routine activities theory purports that crime occurs in places with a suitable target, motivated offender, and lack of guardianship. Medical marijuana dispensaries may be places that satisfy these conditions, but this has not yet been studied. The current study examined whether the density of medical marijuana dispensaries is associated with crime. METHOD An ecological, cross-sectio...

Given a set of crime locations, a statistically significant crime hotspot is an area where the concentration of crimes inside is significantly higher than outside. The motivation of crime hotspot detection is twofold: detecting crime hotspots to focus the deployment of police enforcement and predicting the potential residence of a serial criminal. Crime hotspot detection is computationally chal...