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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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Exploring Overlaps of Cultural Property Crime with Organised Crime in EU Policy Documents
In recent years the interrelation of the trafficking of cultural property with other forms of organised crime has gained prominence in EU policies on...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Crime control or just theater? An experimental test of the effects of a mobile safety app on crime prevention intentions and behaviors
ObjectivesWe examined whether mobile safety apps constitute a form of crime control theater that thwarts actions that have the potential to prevent...
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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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Crime Trends
This chapter points to the fact that crime ratesCrime rates, especially property crimeProperty crime rates, have been trending downwards in all...
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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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Fear of Crime as a Punitive Project—The Swedish Case
This paper asks what the role of fear of crime research plays in the conception and framing of the crime problem, by unpacking the theoretical...
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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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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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State-Crime Relations: Notes on a Necessary Literature
The aim of this article is to probe the entanglements between politics and organized crime—a question seldom addressed in political theory and in...
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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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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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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...
