Crime and society

Abstract

Much of society's resources are devoted to dealing with, or preparing for the possibility of, crime. The dominance of concerns about crime also hints at the broader implications that offending has for many different facets of society. They suggest that rather than being an outlawed subset of social activity crime is an integrated aspect of societal processes. As an introduction to this themed issue of Contemporary Social Science, a brief review is undertaken of some of the direct and indirect social impacts of criminality, proposing that this is worthwhile, not just in terms of understanding crime but also because of how it elucidates more general social considerations. A range of studies that examine the interactions between crime and society are brought together drawing on a wide range of countries and cultures, India, Israel, Nigeria, Turkey and the USA, as well as Britain and Ireland. They include contributions from many different social science disciplines, which complement each other. Taken together the 11 papers reviewed do demonstrate that the implicit and direct impact of crime is very widespread indeed.

Aproximaciones a las realidades de seguridad en el Sur global desde América Latina: una agenda crítica en construcción

“…Sumado a lo anterior, bajo esta configuración se le pueden atribuir dimensiones de diplomacia y soberanía criminales (Liu, 2019), catalítica (Hocking, 1999) y subnacional (Duchacek, 1984) cuando son estos grupos quienes construyen vasos comunicantes con otros actores fuera de las fronteras nacionales. La gobernanza criminal tiende a ocurrir donde el Estado es débil o está ausente (Canter y Youngs, 2016;Müller, 2018), y se producen los espacios suficientes para emular construcciones de poder subterráneo.…”

Del empoderamiento popular a las gobernanzas criminales

“…La gobernanza criminal es un fenómeno ampliamente estudiado que ocurre en lugares donde la débil presencia del Estado es sustituida por un gobierno o mando criminal cuyo objetivo es obtener beneficios económicos de una dinámica residual del poder (Lessing, 2020;Canter & Youngs, 2016;Müller, 2018).…”

Mirante: A visualization tool for analyzing urban crimes

“…We achieve interactive rates in computation of the nearest edges, vertex nodes, and street network simplification. All visualization resources have been developed using JavaScript libraries: Leaflet 10 to perform the interpolation geo-map and D3.js 11 to represent line and bar charts. In our case, we have developed extra components to manipulate filters by using Crossfilter 12 and Dcjs 13 libraries.…”

“…In this context, the branch of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) called Crime Mapping focuses on developing tools to explore and analyze the spatio-temporal behavior of crimes, leveraging the importance of local urban, social, and environmental characteristics as determinants for crime opportunity [1], [2]. Current crime mapping tools combine techniques from different fields such as mathematics and statistics [3]- [5], machine learning [6], [7], optimization and visualization [8]- [10], and social sciences [11], [12]. Examples of crime mapping systems implemented to increase transparency for the population and to support agencies in charge of public security are LexisNexis 1 , NYC Crime Map 2 , CitizenRIMS 3 , and CrimeMapping 4 .…”