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Samuel Langton
Researcher at University of Leeds
Publications - 18
Citations - 176
Samuel Langton is an academic researcher from University of Leeds. The author has contributed to research in topics: Computer science & Selection (genetic algorithm). The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 17 publications receiving 74 citations. Previous affiliations of Samuel Langton include University of Warwick & University of Manchester.
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Six months in: pandemic crime trends in England and Wales
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a comparison between expected and observed crime rates for fourteen different offence categories between March and August, 2020 and find that most crime types experienced sharp, short-term declines during the first full month of lockdown, followed by a gradual resurgence as restrictions were relaxed.
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Residential burglary target selection: An analysis at the property-level using Google Street View
Samuel Langton,Wouter Steenbeek +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the extent to which the physical attributes of residential homes and their immediate surrounding area contribute to the risk of burglary using Google Street View (GSV) as a tool of systematic social observation (SSO).
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The accuracy of crime statistics: assessing the impact of police data bias on geographic crime analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a simulation study to analyze if crime statistics aggregated at small spatial scales are affected by larger bias than maps produced for larger geographies, based on parameters obtained from the UK Census, and simulate a synthetic population consistent with the characteristics of Manchester.
Dissertation
Residential burglary target selection: an analysis at the property-level
TL;DR: Burglary target selection does not stop at the selection of a target neighbourhood, but certain characteristics of individual properties within the same neighbourhood are in turn indicative of burglary risk.
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Small area variation in crime effects of COVID-19 policies in England and Wales
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined small area variation in crime trajectories during the COVID-19 pandemic in England and Wales and found that crime remained fairly stable in most small areas.