Towards a crowdsourcing approach for crime prevention

Cvijikj, Irena Pletikosa; Kadar, Cristina; Ivan, Bogdan; Te, Yiea-Funk

doi:10.1145/2800835.2800971

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“…There are successful attempts to unleash the "wisdom of crowds" expressed in social media in the context of crime analysis (Bendler et al, 2014), mainly with the idea of obtaining information about crime and fear of crime from new sources of information . Some platforms have been developed exclusively to crowdsource information about crime, for instance, Postacrime.com, CityWatch (Cvijikj et al, 2015) or a fear of crime application (Solymosi et al, 2015).…”

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Crime and its fear in social media

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Social media posts incorporate real-time information that has, elsewhere, been exploited to predict social trends. This paper considers whether such information can be useful in relation to crime and fear of crime. A large number of tweets were collected from the 18 largest Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America, over a period of 70 days. These tweets are then classified as being crime-related or not and additional information is extracted, including the type of crime and where possible, any geo-location at a city level. From the analysis of collected data, it is established that around 15 out of every 1000 tweets have text related to a crime, or fear of crime. The frequency of tweets related to crime is then compared against the number of murders, the murder rate, or the level of fear of crime as recorded in surveys. Results show that, like mass media, such as newspapers, social media suffer from a strong bias towards violent or sexual crimes. Furthermore, social media messages are not highly correlated with crime. Thus, social media is shown not to be highly useful for detecting trends in crime itself, but what they do demonstrate is rather a reflection of the level of the fear of crime.

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“…[13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24] Mobile Prototyping mobile crime-prevention system, and emerging mobile platforms and crime maps. [1], [25] IoT Appling wearable computing technologies in crime-prevention sectors [26], [27], [28], [29], [30], [31] Algorithm Predicting and preventing criminal hot spots through algorithms. [4], [32], [33], [34] (Table 3) Literature history of ICT crime-prevention technology Technical crime-prevention methods traditionally depend on CPTED(Crime Prevention through Environmental Design) like CCTV (closed-circuit television) surveillance.…”

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“…Crime is a major concern for many urban residents [1]. Various theories have been applied to solve it, e.g., sociological crime theories and economic crime theories, such as rational choice theory and the conception of peer effects as positive and negative externalities [2], Furthermore, the advancement of ICT (information communication technology) has rendered a great service to the physical crime prevention area.…”

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“…The question in this work is how to reduce the sexual crime increase, as shown in (Figure1) We propose a solution to not 1 Graduate School of Business IT, Kookmin Univ., Seoul, 136-702, Korea. * Corresponding author (srjeong@kookmin.ac.kr) [Received 24 April 2016, Reviewed 26 May 2016, Accepted 14 June 2016] only decrease sexual crime but also to defend citizens' rights through ICT, especially Big Data and IoT (Internet of Things).…”

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Designing a Crime-Prevention System by Converging Big Data and IoT

Jeon¹,

Jeong²

2016

Journal of Internet Computing and Services

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Recently, converging Big Data and IoT(Internet of Things)has become mainstream, and public sector is no exception. In particular, this combinationis applicable to crime prevention in Korea. Crime prevention has evolved from CPTED (Crime Prevention through Environmental Design) to ubiquitous crime prevention;however, such a physical engineering method has the limitation, for instance, unexpected exposureby CCTV installed on the street, and doesn't have the function that automatically alarms passengers who pass through a criminal zone.To overcome that, this paper offers a crime prevention method using Big Data from public organizations along with IoT. We expect this work will help construct an intelligent crime-prevention system to protect the weak in our society.

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“…Put another way, women are more likely to internalise a sense of responsibility for their protection, but this 'responsibilisation' process diverts attention away from the offender to the 'failures' of women to protect themselves from becoming a victim (Davies, 2015). Cvijikj et al (2015) suggest that new technologies such as PSAs make logical sense where technological digital innovations can be used to address real-world social problems. In the case of property crime, they can be used by individuals to share crime-related information, illuminating rational motivations for improving neighbourhood and personal safety.…”

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Generic personal safety applications: empowering victims of domestic violence and abuse? A practitioner lens

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McKie

2021

Journal of Gender-Based Violence

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Bespoke and generic domestic violence and abuse (DVA) personal safety applications (PSAs) have become a popular choice for strategic crime prevention projects by those in the criminal justice sector to achieve justice through digital means as part of the wider digital justice project. These PSAs have been heralded as tools for the protection, empowerment and resilience building of victims in DVA, despite limited independent evaluations. This article explores the use of a generic PSA, which the police have adopted for rollout to victims of DVA in one region of the United Kingdom. We undertook a thematic analysis of data taken from a roundtable and three follow up focus groups with practitioners from the police, criminal justice, DVA specialist sector and victim services, alongside the PSA development team. We found both some support for using this PSA and serious concerns regarding its use in DVA situations.<br /><br />Key messages<br /><ul><li>There are limits to the use of generic personal safety applications in domestic violence and abuse support including, risks of entrapment through technological affiliated abuse, reinforcing victim stereotypes, and being financially inaccessible to victims of domestic violence and abuse.</li><br /><li>Independent evaluations are integral to avoid organisational responses where generic personal safety applications may be ineffectual, or escalate danger by failing to facilitate victim safety.</li></ul>

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Towards a crowdsourcing approach for crime prevention

Cited by 11 publications

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Crime and its fear in social media

Crime and its fear in social media

Designing a Crime-Prevention System by Converging Big Data and IoT

Generic personal safety applications: empowering victims of domestic violence and abuse? A practitioner lens

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