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Predicting Gun Violence in Stockholm, Sweden, Using Sociodemographics, Crime and Drug Market Locations
The well-being of neighbourhoods in terms of socioeconomic conditions constitutes an important element in analyses focused on the explanation of...
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The processes, logics and economies of violence in organised crime
This paper provides an introduction to the articles that comprise this special issue on violence and organised crime. Bringing together research into...
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COVID-19, Violent Crime, and Domestic Violence: An Exploratory Analysis
As the world continues to struggle with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been much speculation on the impact of the virus on crime...
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When Things Turn Sour: A Network Event Study of Organized Crime Violence
ObjectiveThis study examines the mechanisms underpinning the emergence of violence among individuals in the organized crime milieu.
Methods ...
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Crime: a Systematic Review
COVID-19 caused a great burden on the healthcare system and led to lockdown measures across the globe. These measures are likely to influence crime...
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Steven Box and Police Crime: Understanding and Challenging Police Violence and Corruption
In Power, Crime, and Mystification (PCM), Steven Box suggested that the law-and-order climate of the 1980s made it very difficult to even mention...
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Post-pandemic crime trends in England and Wales
This study of recorded crime trends in England & Wales spans three and a half years, that is, two covid pandemic years from March 2020 and 18...
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Co-offending and the Persistence of Violence: A Dynamic Analysis
ObjectivesPrevious research underscores the influence of prior violent co-offending on subsequent violent behavior, linking it to a social contagion...
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Crime, pandemic and social mobility: Empirical evidence from Türkiye
Criminal behavior, which takes its content from society, has been associated with social isolation, national quarantine, and mandatory stay-at-home...
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How immigration, level of unemployment, and income inequality affect crime in Europe
Research examining the immigration and crime connection has proliferated, stimulating a vigorous debate among academics and politicians alike....
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Unintended consequences of state action: how the kingpin strategy transformed the structure of violence in Mexico’s organized crime
This paper builds on social network analysis and structural balance theory to analyze, with a novel approach, some of the unintended consequences of...
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Time in Crime: An Added Dimension to the Study of Crime Guns
A growing body of literature has explored the ‘life course’ of crime guns, with particular focus on the time between initial point of sale of...
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Understanding the impact of urban heat islands on crime: insights from temperature, population density, and green canopy cover
Emergent literature suggests that micro- and macro-climates influence criminal behaviour; a complex phenomenon that is still incipient in theory...
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Prison Violence in Latin America: Criminal Governance and an Absent State
Using a survey applied to incarcerated populations in Latin American countries, this study aims to examine the factors that determine the existence...
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Spatial distribution and developmental trajectories of crime versus crime severity: do not abandon the count-based model just yet
Purpose/backgroundA new body of research that focuses on crime harm scores rather than counts of crime incidents has emerged. Specifically in the...
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Financial Crime Scripting: an Analytical Method to Generate, Organise and Systematise Knowledge on the Financial Aspects of Profit-Driven Crime
This article presents a further development of the existing crime scripting framework to enhance insight in the financial aspects of profit-driven...
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Is Boomtown Growth Associated with Crime in Suburban Areas?: Examining the Importance of Rapid Population Growth and Neighborhood Change for Crime in Frisco, Texas
A substantial body of research has documented the consequences of rapid population growth for crime, but most of this literature focused on...
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Governing the underworld: how organized crime governs other criminals in Colombian cities
This article explores how organized criminal organizations exercise criminal governance over other organized and non-organized criminals using public...
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Police practitioner views on the challenges of analysing and responding to knife crime
Knife crime remains a major concern in England and Wales. Problem-oriented and public health approaches to tackling knife crime have been widely...
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From Causal Mechanisms to Policy Mechanisms: Why Did Crime Decline and What Lessons Can Be Learned from It?
Criminology has not systematically identified the cause or causes of perhaps the most seminal event in crime and justice of the last half century:...
