Nodes, paths and edges: Considerations on the complexity of crime and the physical environment

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationships between environmental and cognitive factors as they influenced the formation of social networks through modeling how these factors affect tie formation between pairs of agents in a simulated world, and found that changes to each of these exogenous factors affected the network's average memory activation value of each tie.

TL;DR: The authors investigated criminal nomadism, an individual's propensity to engage in continuous or intermittent interurban travel as a way to cope with the consequences of their criminal lifestyle and/or as a strategy to adapt to the reality of being a career criminal.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examine how assault, disorder, and property crimes change when playoff games are played at home relative to when they are played away and find that during home games there are 7% more disorder crimes and 4% more property crimes than during away games, which suggests that city responses to playoff hockey games should prioritize crime reduction strategies to improve public safety.

TL;DR: In this article, Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion -imageability -and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities.

TL;DR: In this paper, a "routine activity approach" is presented for analyzing crime rate trends and cycles. But rather than emphasizing the characteristics of offenders, with this approach, the authors concentrate upon the circumstances in which they carry out predatory criminal acts, and hypothesize that the dispersion of activities away from households and families increases the opportunity for crime and thus generates higher crime rates.

Abstract: What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion -- imageability -- and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.