Crime scientists rarely ask residents: new analysis shows community voices are missing from hotspot research
A content analysis of 212 Crime Science articles found only 1.9 percent included community residents, while three Newark case studies ...
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Eight Principles Aim to Turn Crime Storytelling into Rigorous Scripting
Researchers propose eight principles, grounded in states and activities, to bring systematic rigour to how crime scripts are built and ...
Chicago homicide hotspots split evenly between persistent risk and contagion
A Bayesian CoxâHawkes model of 2,087 Chicago homicides finds persistent background risk and self-excitation each account for roughly half of ...
Mobile app tasking boosts hotspot patrols but fails to cut violent crime in trial
A randomised crossover trial in Thames Valley Police found that a mobile phone application dramatically increased hotspot patrols but produced ...
License Plate Readers May Not Pay Off for Police, Study Argues
A new analysis argues that the cost-effectiveness of automatic license plate readers in policing cannot be established without evidence-based deployment ...
Young Adults in Japan See Both Benefits and Harms in Adult Videos, With Men and Women Diverging Sharply
A survey of 251 Japanese young adults found shared and sex-specific social representations of adult video benefits and harms, with ...
South Africa’s Mass Shootings Reveal a Governance Gap, Not Just a Policing Failure
A new Frontiers in Political Science analysis argues that Gauteng's recurring mass shootings stem from simultaneous failures of regulatory, spatial, ...
Street-Level Crime Patterns Diverge Sharply Across City Sizes, Landmark Study Finds
A new analysis of nearly 300,000 street segments across 12 U.S. cities shows that the effects of neighborhood disadvantage and ...
The Science of Why People Don’t Commit Crimes When They Could
A new theoretical framework proposes that non-offending during real criminal opportunities can be explained by five distinct categories of restraint ...
Cameras Cut Crime, But Only Where Neighborhoods Let Them Work
A new study of Washington, D.C. finds that CCTV cameras reduce crime unevenly, working best in low-poverty, renter-heavy and commercial ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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