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The scholarly investigation delves into a subject that has garnered limited attention: the dissemination of criminal activities through cartographic representations. Despite the ubiquitous presence of maps in various media outlets such as crime reports, ...

Policing decisions, allocations and outcomes are determined by mapping historical crime data geo-spatially using popular algorithms. In this extended abstract, we present early results from a mixed-methods study of the practices, policies, and ...

This paper presents a three phase approach to crime prediction based on video analysis, neuro-fuzzy inference and density mapping. In the first phase, crime indicator concepts are modeled and used in building classifiers for crime indicator events. Both ...

In this paper we survey HCI research relevant to crime prevention technology and identify a research gap towards validating the hypothesis that technology supporting social interaction between users is more effective than pure information-based crime ...

With the rising level of criminal activities, crime is becoming one of the main problems of modern society. To address this issue, we implement a mobile application for crime prevention. We focus on the usage intention and motivations for content ...

In this paper we present a system designed for the Namibian Police to empower officers to create and maintain crime and accident reports more effectively and more efficiently by improving the current paper based procedures. Beyond the digitalization of ...

This article presents the results of a quantitative survey in a central European city, where more than 1,500 citizens were asked about their fear of becoming a victim of burglary. Additionally, vulnerabilities to crimes were measured. A large set of ...

The Malta CRISOLA case study is investigated in terms of its analysis of the approaches taken to ensure that data in the physical and social domains are tackled within a reliable structure as that provided by the spatial domain through INSPIRE. The ...

This paper presents a set of methods and functions to create interactive 3D tactical intelligence assessments by joining analysis of burglary crime scenes and geovisualization issues. For this purpose general spatio-temporal patterns of residential ...

Criminology has been greatly affected by the field of crime mapping. This has mostly been because of advancements in geographic information systems GIS and other spatial analysis software programs. The field has gained prominence and acceptance by ...

This article is an area study on the hypothesis that violent crime is linked to a subculture of violence, social disadvantage, or land uses such as rental, retail/office/commercial, or public/institutional property. Rates and types of reported violent ...

Whether substance abuse treatment centers affect neighborhood crime is hotly debated. Empirical evidence on this issue is lacking because of the difficulty of distinguishing the crime effect of treatment centers in high-crime areas, the inability to ...