Crime Science Journal

Open-access @biomedcentral interdisciplinary journal publishing applied research on preventing, detecting and understanding crime and disorder

[Crime Science Journal @CrimeScience]

A new Crime Science paper with some unexpected results on how fly-tipping changed during pandemic lockdowns in the UK (when recycling centres were typically closed).

[Covid-19-Crime @covid_crime]

New publication shows that, contrary to expectation and many reports, illegal waste fly-tipping declined during the first pandemic lockdown (UK). https://t.co/wT9cYpCbAk.

#flytipping #wastedata #wastemanagement #wastecrime @CrimeScience @CCJSLeeds @OpenResLeeds

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📢 CALLING ALL ONLINE SAFETY RESEARCHERS!

We are inviting submissions to a special collection on Measuring, Detecting, and Preventing Cyber Social Threats, guest edited by @Sandy_Research @EnricoMariconti @kimpulsive93 @FlorenceEnock @UgurKursuncu

https://t.co/Uei7DVi120

[Covid-19-Crime @covid_crime]

We are pleased to share that our research on anti-social behaviour (ASB) in England and Wales during the COVID-19 Pandemic has today been published in @CrimeScience. https://t.co/lUHlCJKWat.

[Springer Criminology @SpringerCrim]

Interviews with 100+ hunters & 12 traffickers in the Russian Far East inform Crime Science's #OpenAccess research (https://t.co/Ef2WYphGrX) into the poaching of endangered Amur tigers. This article invokes findings: https://t.co/HrcxcDjxoS

[Joel Caplan, PhD @JoelCaplan]

Systematic review and meta-analysis of risk terrain modelling (RTM) as a spatial forecasting method. Marchment & Gill (2021) https://t.co/NwhGejhHTp

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New paper by @AriannaTrozze @JoshKamps @ArdaAkartuna @flo_hetzel Bennett Kleinberg @tobypeterdavies and Shane Johnson reviewing the research on fraud involving #CryptoCurrency #CryptoCurrencies

Free to read #OpenAccess at https://t.co/wgph3bxDxf

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New #OpenAccess paper by @arcos_oliveira on how many types of crime increase in a non-linear way as population increases, which means comparing cities based on per-capita crime rates might be misleading. Free to read at https://t.co/16IKP3TEJj

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New paper by @DavidBuil @Yongyu_Zeng & @StvnKemp showing that the pandemic accelerated the long-term trend of increasing both cyber-enabled and cyber-dependent crime, which rose during lockdowns and then stayed at those higher levels afterwards. Read FREE https://t.co/P4HeGtdJ5W

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@JPinaSanchez @DavidBuil 🤨

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NEW PAPER: researchers from @UQ_News have used crime scripts to identify promising ways to stop harassment using so-called 'revenge porn'

Full paper #openaccess and free to read at https://t.co/SnwVzMytLC

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NEW PAPER! Free and #openaccess to read and reuse

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NEW PAPER! Looking at how the relationship between COVID-19 and crime in Chicago varied between different neighbourhoods. FREE to read and #openaccess as always

[Alex Piquero @DrAlexPiquero]

New paper w/ @CampedelliGian @SerenaFavarin @AlbertoAziani disentangling community-level changes in crime trends during #COVID19 in Chicago published in @UCLCrimeScience @SpringerNature @BioMedCentral @cjralliance @LessCrime / https://t.co/xblMBKbvrH

[Covid-19-Crime @covid_crime]

Check out our latest publication in @CrimeScience on how UK law enforcement used Twitter during the #pandemic.
#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #research #Crime #COVID19

[Matt Ashby @LessCrime]

I'm drafting updated journal submission guidelines for @CrimeScience to make it easier to submit articles and get them out for review.

What would you like to see (e.g. format-free submission) in our updated guidelines?

cc @CriminologyOpen @CommCrim

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NEW ARTICLE: 'Routine activity effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on burglary in Detroit, March, 2020’ by Marcus Felson, Shanhe Jiang & Yanqing Xu found burglaries increased in mixed-use blocks but not residential blocks.

Full #openaccess paper: https://t.co/CVcq5FwvEQ

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NEW PAPER: 'A systematic review on spatial crime forecasting’ by Ourania Kounadi, @Alina_Ristea @adelsonaraujojr and Michael Leitner reviews the rapidly expanding field of forecasting where crime will happen

Full paper free and #openaccess at https://t.co/K0gnpsM9P7

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NEW PAPER: 'Do offenders avoid offending near home? A systematic review of the buffer zone hypothesis’ by Wim Bernasco and Remco van Dijke from @NSCR_Instituut

Full paper free and #openaccess at https://t.co/0pYrqAWPMf

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NEW PAPER: 'Initial evidence on the relationship between the coronavirus pandemic and crime in the United States’ by @LessCrime analyses changes in crime data in 16 large cities during the pandemic

Full paper free and #openaccess at https://t.co/xa1XfZJ9L8

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@UofTsukuba @TohokuUniPR @NPA_KOHO The authors show that when a sex crime is committed against a girl in a public place in Japan, another crime is more than 10 times as likely to happen nearby in the following week compared to previously. *Free* #openaccess paper at: https://t.co/Up7kOWtq7p

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NEW PAPER: 'Near-repeat victimization of sex crimes and threat incidents against women and girls in Tokyo, Japan’ by Mamoru Amemiya of @UofTsukuba, Tomoki Nakaya of @TohokuUniPR and Takahito Shimada of @NPA_KOHO https://t.co/Up7kOWtq7p