...Yiu Ming Ng; Barak Ariel; Vincent Harinam Purpose A growing body of literature focuses on crime hotspots; however, less is known about the spatial distribution of crime at mass transit systems, and even less is known about trajectory patterns of hotspots in non-English-speaking countries...

..., 2015). For example, one might wish to know if crime concentrates in the same areas throughout the day (e.g. Herrmann, 2013), if hotspots of different crime types overlap (e.g. Haberman, 2017 ; Lum, 2008), if the risks of victimization increase following a criminal incident (e.g. Johnson et al...

...Stuart Norton; Barak Ariel; Cristobal Weinborn; Emma O’Dwyer Purpose Virtually all analyses of hotspots have been devoted to a crude counting system, i.e. tallying the number of occurrences that take place in pre-specified units of space and time. Recent research shows that while usually half...

... that monthly youth homicides decreased by 63 percent, while monthly shots-fired counts decreased by 32 percent (Braga et al., 2001). © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Intelligence-led policing Organized crime Hotspots FBI Gangs...

...Timothy Hart; Paul Zandbergen Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of user-defined parameters settings (e.g. interpolation method, grid cell size, and bandwidth) on the predictive accuracy of crime hotspot maps produced from kernel density estimation (KDE). Design...