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- Publications
- Influence
Imprisoning Communities: How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse
- G. Tita
- Sociology
- 1 March 2009
refugee children, Watters’ book provides more generally significant insights into a wide array of issues relevant to contemporary refugees. Rather than concentrating on those who receive refugee… Expand
Self-Exciting Point Process Modeling of Crime
- G. Mohler, M. Short, P. J. Brantingham, F. Schoenberg, G. Tita
- Mathematics
- 1 March 2011
Highly clustered event sequences are observed in certain types of crime data, such as burglary and gang violence, due to crime-specific patterns of criminal behavior. Similar clustering patterns are… Expand
A STATISTICAL MODEL OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR
- M. Short, M. D'Orsogna, +4 authors L. B. Chayes
- Computer Science
- 1 August 2008
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Traveling to Violence: The Case for a Mobility-Based Spatial Typology of Homicide
- G. Tita, Elizabeth Griffiths
- Psychology
- 1 August 2005
According to routine activities theory, crime is the result of an intersection between victims and offenders in both time and space. We introduce a spatial typology that identifies five combinations… Expand
Reducing Gun Violence: Results from an Intervention in East Los Angeles
- G. Tita, K. J. Riley, G. Ridgeway, C. Grammich, A. Abrahamse, P. Greenwood
- Political Science
- 13 November 2003
To assess whether an initiative to reduce gun violence that had been successful in Boston could be adapted for use elsewhere, researchers selected an East Los Angeles area for a similar intervention… Expand
Spatial Analyses of Crime a B S T R a C T 213
- L. Anselin, J. Cohen, D. Cook, W. Gorr, G. Tita
- 2000
213 Luc Anselin is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a member of the National Consortium on Violence… Expand
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Diffusion in Homicide: Exploring a General Method for Detecting Spatial Diffusion Processes
This article proposes a new method for examining dynamic changes in thespatial distribution of a phenomenon. Recently introduced exploratoryspatial data analysis (ESDA) techniques provide social… Expand
Dissipation and displacement of hotspots in reaction-diffusion models of crime
- M. B. Short, P. Brantingham, A. Bertozzi, G. Tita
- Computer Science, Sociology
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 22 February 2010
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Randomized Controlled Field Trials of Predictive Policing
- G. Mohler, M. B. Short, +4 authors P. J. Brantingham
- Mathematics
- 2 October 2015
The concentration of police resources in stable crime hotspots has proven effective in reducing crime, but the extent to which police can disrupt dynamically changing crime hotspots is unknown.… Expand
Measuring and Modeling Repeat and Near-Repeat Burglary Effects
- M. Short, M. D'Orsogna, P. J. Brantingham, G. Tita
- Computer Science
- 20 May 2009
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