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Book Review: Breaking and Entering: Burglars on Burglary
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On-line Activities, Guardianship, and Malware Infection: An Examination of Routine Activities Theory
Adam M. Bossler,Thomas J. Holt +1 more
TL;DR: The growth and penetration of computer technology in modern life has provided criminals with efficient tools to commit crime by providing opportunities to commit crimes that could not exist without cyberspace.
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A Crime Script Analysis of the Online Stolen Data Market
Alice Hutchings,Thomas J. Holt +1 more
TL;DR: The work in this article was supported by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate, Cyber Security Division (DHSS and T/CSD) Broad Agency Announcement 11.02, the Government of Australia and SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific (N66001-13-C-0131 to A.H.
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Victims' routine activities and sex offenders' target selection scripts: a latent class analysis
TL;DR: The scripts identified appeared to be used by both sexual aggressor of children and sexual aggressors of adults, and a high proportion of crime switching was found among the identified scripts.
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Co-offending and the choice of target areas in burglary
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether solitary offenders choose their target areas differently from the way offender groups do, and found that solitary burglars and burglar groups seem to agree on what constitutes an attractive target area, because no evidence for the postulated differences between them is found.
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"Might Not Be a Tomorrow": A Multi-Methods Approach to Anticipated Early Death and Youth Crime *
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the limitations of previous studies using a multimethods approach, which involves the analyses of national survey data and in-depth interviews with active street offenders.
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Property Offenses in Ghana: The Case of Burglary Trends and Patterns in Accra
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the trends and spatial patterning of burglary in and among the four police precincts of Accra, Ghana, and found that residential burglary was highest in the Kpeshie division and lowest in the Nima division, the division with the most blight homes.
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The Effect of Community-Level Alarm Ownership on Burglary Rates
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship among tract-level alarm ownership, burglary rates, and sociodemographic variables using a sample of 90 census tracts from a large city in the northeastern United States.
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Criminal registries, community notification, and optimal avoidance
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study how community notification of criminal registries affects neighborhood behavior and show that notification is not always optimal using a game-theoretic model of a neighborhood, and establish optimal information disclosure policies when law-abiding neighbors' actions generate inefficiencies.
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Operationalizing routine activity theory in juvenile delinquency: A social work perspective:
TL;DR: Routine activity theory, introduced by Cohen and Felson, may be useful in informing social workers to design better interventions with juvenile offenders as mentioned in this paper, and they apply the theory in t
Not again: repeat and near-repeat burglary in a mid-size city.
TL;DR: In this article, the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Criminology and Justice Policy in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities of Northeastern University were fulfilled in partial fulfillment of the requirements.