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Crime scripting: A systematic review
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version.More than two decades after the publication of Cornish’s seminal work about the script-theoretic approach to crime analysis, this article examines how the concept has been applied in our community. The study provides evidence confirming that the approach is increasingly popular; and takes stock of crime scripting practices through a systematic review of over one hundred scripts published between 1994 and 2018. The results offer the first comprehensive picture of this approach, and highlights new directions for those interested in using data from cyber-systems and the Internet of Things to develop effective situational crime prevention measures
Investigation of how social media influenced the endsars protests in Lagos, Nigeria
The research assessed the role of social media in the unfolding of the
EndSARS demonstrations in Nigeria. The study was necessary given the persistent
call by governments for the strict regulation of social medium platforms. This
is given governments' claim that social media is being misused. The study,
however, reveals that social media use is determined by users' social
experiences, including those caused by governments.Comment: master's thesi
Finding Street Gang Members on Twitter
Most street gang members use Twitter to intimidate others, to present
outrageous images and statements to the world, and to share recent illegal
activities. Their tweets may thus be useful to law enforcement agencies to
discover clues about recent crimes or to anticipate ones that may occur.
Finding these posts, however, requires a method to discover gang member Twitter
profiles. This is a challenging task since gang members represent a very small
population of the 320 million Twitter users. This paper studies the problem of
automatically finding gang members on Twitter. It outlines a process to curate
one of the largest sets of verifiable gang member profiles that have ever been
studied. A review of these profiles establishes differences in the language,
images, YouTube links, and emojis gang members use compared to the rest of the
Twitter population. Features from this review are used to train a series of
supervised classifiers. Our classifier achieves a promising F1 score with a low
false positive rate.Comment: 8 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, Published as a full paper at 2016
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and
Mining (ASONAM 2016
Sustainability living labs as a methodological approach to research on the cultural drivers of sustainable development
Given that culture-driven processes cannot be researched and designed if taken out from the real-life environment, an appropriate methodology to study the impact of culture on sustainable development is needed. The aim of the research was to develop a model of a sustainability living lab as a methodological approach based on the living lab concept and its capabilities to study the cultural drivers of sustainable development. The research was carried out with use of the conceptual research framework based on analyzing existing knowledge on cognitive processes within living laboratories and their interpretation in the light of the relationship between culture and sustainable development. First, the results of the analysis of sustainability cultural drivers and the living lab concept are presented, which constitute the research framework of the study. Then, the main contribution as a novel theoretical concept of sustainability living lab is elaborated and discussed. The novelty of this approach to research on the cultural drivers of sustainable development is based on linking together in a coherent model the consequences of the dual nature of culture and the arguments for conducting such research beyond the limitations of closed laboratories towards the highly dynamic environment of real life
AI for Situational Awareness in Situations With High Uncertainty: An Explorative Case Study
Often, the police experience scenarios with much uncertainty. These scenarios can be characterized by high time pressure, huge amounts of information, and potentially severe consequences. In this paper, we study whether artificial intelligence (AI) can be a fit for the information processing needs of the police helping them achieve situational awareness and make better decisions. Given the potential severity of police situations, AI can potentially reduce the risk of fatal outcomes and wrong decisions. Investigating this issue with police officers and AI experts as our informants, our findings suggest that our informants are positive to AI as a support tool, but more skeptical to whether AI can make an impact in their daily police work due to the complexity of their work. The importance of implementing AI to suitable tasks is emphasized
Chicago Recovery Partnership Evaluation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
From 2009-2011, the City of Chicago and Cook County received a total of 1.09 billion of total spending in Chicago and Cook County, resulting in net benefits ranging from -2,740.2 million. The wide range in net benefits is attributed largely to education, which received over half of ARRA funding
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