Exploring the homogeneity of theft offenders in spatio-temporal crime hotspots

Exploring the homogeneity of theft offenders in spatio-temporal crime hotspots

Abstract Offender homogeneity occurs when the same criminal group is composed of offenders with similar attributes (e.g., socio-economic-demographics). Exploring the homogeneity of offenders within spatio-temporal crime hotspots (STCHs) is useful for understanding not only the generational mechanism...

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Main Authors: Tongxin Chen, Kate Bowers, Tao Cheng, Yang Zhang, Peng Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-06-01
Series:Crime Science
Subjects:
Spatio-temporal clustering
Homogenous offenders
ST-DBSCAN
Entropy
Near-repeat victimization
Unsupervised learning
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40163-020-00115-8

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