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Organised crime movement across local communities: A network approach
This paper explores the structure of organised crime movement across local communities and the drivers underpinning such movement. Firstly, it builds...
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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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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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Stolen data markets on Telegram: a crime script analysis and situational crime prevention measures
Illicit data markets have emerged on Telegram, a popular online instant messaging application, bringing together thousands of users worldwide in an...
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Crime within a Bandwidth: Testing “the Law of Crime Concentration at Place” in Brussels
This study tests the law of crime concentration at place in Brussels Capital Region (approx. 1.2 million inhabitants) and examines the spatial...
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Partners in Criminology: Machine Learning and Network Science Reveal Missed Opportunities and Inequalities in the Study of Crime
ObjectivesResearch in criminology and criminal justice is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary, international network of intersecting research topics....
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A relational approach to organised crime
This is an introduction to the articles submitted to the special issue of Trends in Organized Crime on ‘Crime and Networks’. The aim of this special...
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Social Change, Cohort Effects, and Dynamics of the Age–Crime Relationship: Age and Crime in South Korea from 1967 to 2011
ObjectiveThe goal of this study is to examine how the age-crime distribution in South Korea has shifted over time and the role of cohorts in driving...
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Policing, Labor Market, and Crime in Japan: Evidence from Prefectural Panel Data
The study analyzed long-term changes in Japanese crime rates and their relationship with policing and labor market conditions, focusing on the...
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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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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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Do police stations deter crime?
PurposeThe introduction of community policing led to a significant increase in the number of police stations, particularly in urban settings. Police...
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COVID-19 and organized crime: an introduction to the special issue
This is an introduction to the articles submitted to the special issue of Trends in Organized Crime on ‘COVID-19 and Organized Crime’. The aim of the...
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Towards digital organized crime and digital sociology of organized crime
As technology has changed people’s lives, criminal phenomena are also constantly evolving. Today’s digital society is changing the activities of...
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The persistence of organized crime in post-caliphate Iraq: a case of crime-terror convergence?
In the advancing understanding of the crime-terror nexus, organized crime and terrorist entities are increasingly seen as capable of pursuing...
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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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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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Rethinking organized crime in Africa
Much of the existing research on organized crime in Africa has emphasised its development and proliferation from state and security perspectives....
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Criminology and Crime Science in the Arab World
Throughout most of the twentieth century, Western criminological thought was preoccupied by theories of modern criminology, which were concerned with...
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Places and Crime
Crime is highly concentrated at a relatively few addresses, regardless of the city or neighborhood examined and regardless of the types of place....