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Justin Kurland

Researcher at University of Waikato

Publications -  19
Citations -  337

Justin Kurland is an academic researcher from University of Waikato. The author has contributed to research in topics: Football & Crime prevention. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 16 publications receiving 248 citations. Previous affiliations of Justin Kurland include Rutgers University & University of Southern Mississippi.

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Offenses around Stadiums: A Natural Experiment on Crime Attraction and Generation

TL;DR: In this article, the authors make use of a natural experiment to see if a U.K. soccer stadium generates or attracts crime in the area that surrounds it and find that on days when the stadium is used, the rate of crime per unit time is elevated, but that the rate per ambient population at risk is not.
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Wildlife crime: a conceptual integration, literature review, and methodological critique

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight general principals of crime science found through an in-depth review of the conservation literature and identify the existence of interventions for which the mechanisms mirror those found within SCP, and consider their effectiveness.
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Assessing U.S. Wildlife Trafficking Patterns: How Criminology and Conservation Science Can Guide Strategies to Reduce the Illegal Wildlife Trade

TL;DR: The illegal wildlife trade is among the most profitable transnational crimes in the world as mentioned in this paper, and fewer than 330 agents from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services are tasked with inspecting 72 air and sea ports.
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Estimating the Spatial Distribution of Crime Events around a Football Stadium from Georeferenced Tweets

TL;DR: Findings indicate a statistically significant spatial relationship between three crime types (criminal damage, theft and handling, and violence against the person) and tweet patterns, and that such a relationship can be used to explain future incidents of crime.
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Measuring the resilience of criminogenic ecosystems to global disruption: A case-study of COVID-19 in China.

TL;DR: The validity of the proposed resilience assessment tool is demonstrated using commercial theft data from the COVID-19 pandemic period, and a 64 per cent reduction in crime was found in the studied city (China) during an 83-day period, before daily crime levels bounced back to higher than expected values.