Recent theoretical and methodological advances in urban sociology, including spatially
located data, provide new opportunities to consider the joint influence of mobility and place …

Urban agglomerations are constantly and rapidly evolving ecosystems, with globalization
and increasing urbanization posing new challenges in sustainable urban development well …

Criminology tries to explain crime and criminal behaviour. This poses longstanding
questions: Why do only some people commit crimes? Why are some people re-victimised …

Objectives We illustrate how a machine learning algorithm, Random Forests, can provide
accurate long-term predictions of crime at micro places relative to other popular techniques …

Nowadays, 23% of the world population lives in multi-million cities. In these metropolises,
criminal activity is much higher and violent than in either small cities or rural areas. Thus …

Understanding how offenders choose a crime location is a classic criminological topic.
However, previous research on offenders' crime location choice did not consider the impacts …

Optimizing allocation of vaccine, a highly scarce resource, is an urgent and critical issue
during fighting against on‐going COVID‐19 epidemic. Prior studies suggested that vaccine …

This review outlines approaches to explanations of crime that incorporate the concept of
human mobility—or the patterns of movement throughout space of individuals or populations …

Spatial crime simulations contribute to our understanding of the mechanisms that drive crime
and can support decision-makers in develo** effective crime reduction strategies. Agent …

Due to the rapid growth in the use of smartphones, the digital traces (eg, mobile phone data,
call detail records) left by the use of these devices have been widely employed to assess …