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Crime Science Journal Law at Leeds Fernando Miró-Llinares Thanks to Crime Science Journal for allowing this space for scientific debate. I wish there were more publications like these in which there is a more direct exchange of opinions. This is like when they say "the best part of the conference was the debate afterwards." Well, this is it.

NEW PAPER: 'Initial evidence on the relationship between the coronavirus pandemic and crime in the United States’ by Matt Ashby analyses changes in crime data in 16 large cities during the pandemic Full paper free and #openaccess at doi.org/10.1186/s40163…

NEW PAPER: 'Do offenders avoid offending near home? A systematic review of the buffer zone hypothesis’ by Wim Bernasco and Remco van Dijke from NSCR.nl Full paper free and #openaccess at doi.org/10.1186/s40163…

NEW PAPER: 'A systematic review on spatial crime forecasting’ by Ourania Kounadi, Alina Ristea @adelsonaraujojr and Michael Leitner reviews the rapidly expanding field of forecasting where crime will happen Full paper free and #openaccess at doi.org/10.1186/s40163…

NEW ARTICLE: 'Routine activity effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on burglary in Detroit, March, 2020’ by Marcus Felson, Shanhe Jiang & Yanqing Xu found burglaries increased in mixed-use blocks but not residential blocks. Full #openaccess paper: doi.org/10.1186/s40163…

I'm drafting updated journal submission guidelines for Crime Science Journal to make it easier to submit articles and get them out for review. What would you like to see (e.g. format-free submission) in our updated guidelines? cc @CriminologyOpen CrimComm

NEW PAPER! Looking at how the relationship between COVID-19 and crime in Chicago varied between different neighbourhoods. FREE to read and #openaccess as always

NEW PAPER! Free and #openaccess to read and reuse

NEW PAPER: researchers from UQ News have used crime scripts to identify promising ways to stop harassment using so-called 'revenge porn' Full paper #openaccess and free to read at doi.org/10.1186/s40163…

New paper by David Buil-Gil Dr Yongyu Zeng & Steven Kemp showing that the pandemic accelerated the long-term trend of increasing both cyber-enabled and cyber-dependent crime, which rose during lockdowns and then stayed at those higher levels afterwards. Read FREE doi.org/10.1186/s40163…

New #OpenAccess paper by Marcos Oliveira on how many types of crime increase in a non-linear way as population increases, which means comparing cities based on per-capita crime rates might be misleading. Free to read at doi.org/10.1186/s40163…

New paper by Arianna Josh Kamps Eray Arda Akartuna @flo_hetzel Bennett Kleinberg Toby Davies and Shane Johnson reviewing the research on fraud involving #CryptoCurrency #CryptoCurrencies Free to read #OpenAccess at doi.org/10.1186/s40163…

Systematic review and meta-analysis of risk terrain modelling (RTM) as a spatial forecasting method. Marchment & Gill (2021) link.springer.com/article/10.118…

Interviews with 100+ hunters & 12 traffickers in the Russian Far East inform Crime Science's #OpenAccess research (bit.ly/350fAGX) into the poaching of endangered Amur tigers. This article invokes findings: on.natgeo.com/3JvarWm

📢 CALLING ALL ONLINE SAFETY RESEARCHERS! We are inviting submissions to a special collection on Measuring, Detecting, and Preventing Cyber Social Threats, guest edited by Sandy Schumann (PhD) 🇪🇺 Enrico Mariconti kimberley allison Florence Enock Ugur Kursuncu crimesciencejournal.biomedcentral.com/special-collec…

A new Crime Science paper with some unexpected results on how fly-tipping changed during pandemic lockdowns in the UK (when recycling centres were typically closed).