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Assault

Correlated impulses: Using Facebook interests to improve predictions of crime rates in urban areas

Masoomali Fatehkia, Dan O’Brien, Ingmar Weber

Factors influencing temporal patterns in crime in a large American city: A predictive analytics perspective

Sherry Towers, Siqiao Chen, Abish Malik, David Ebert

The role of self-objectification and women’s blame, sympathy, and support for a rape victim

Casey L. Bevens, Amy L. Brown, Steve Loughnan

‘Lowering the threshold of effective deterrence’—Testing the effect of private security agents in public spaces on crime: A randomized controlled trial in a mass transit system

Barak Ariel, Matthew Bland, Alex Sutherland

Aggregate-level lead exposure, gun violence, homicide, and rape

Brian B. Boutwell, Erik J. Nelson, [ ... ], Richard Rosenfeld

Advising caution in studying seasonal oscillations in crime rates

Kun Dong, Yunbai Cao, [ ... ], Scott G. McCalla

Femicide in Turkey between 2000 and 2010

Sadik Toprak, Gokhan Ersoy

The impact of the Orlando mass shooting on fear of victimization and gun-purchasing intentions: Not what one might expect

Wolfgang Stroebe, N. Pontus Leander, Arie W. Kruglanski

The Effects of Local Police Surges on Crime and Arrests in New York City

John MacDonald, Jeffrey Fagan, Amanda Geller

A Review of the Statistical and Quantitative Methods Used to Study Alcohol-Attributable Crime

Jessica L. Fitterer, Trisalyn A. Nelson

Blame Conformity: Innocent Bystanders Can Be Blamed for a Crime as a Result of Misinformation from a Young, but Not Elderly, Adult Co-Witness

Craig Thorley

A Difference-In-Differences Study of the Effects of a New Abandoned Building Remediation Strategy on Safety

Michelle C. Kondo, Danya Keene, [ ... ], Charles C. Branas

Reducing Sexual Violence by Increasing the Supply of Toilets in Khayelitsha, South Africa: A Mathematical Model

Gregg S. Gonsalves, Edward H. Kaplan, A. David Paltiel

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