Recent research has shown that criminal networks have complex organizational structures, but whether this can be used to predict static […]
Corruption crimes demand highly coordinated actions among criminal agents to succeed. But research dedicated to corruption networks is still in […]
Understanding the causes of crime is a longstanding issue in researcher’s agenda. While it is a hard task to extract […]
Scale-adjusted metrics (SAMs) are a significant achievement of the urban scaling hypothesis. SAMs remove the inherent biases of per capita […]
Urban population scaling of resource use, creativity metrics, and human behaviors has been widely studied. These studies have not looked […]
More than a half of world population is now living in cities and this number is expected to be two-thirds […]
The spatial dynamics of criminal activities has been recently studied through statistical physics methods; however, models and results have been […]
Since the seminal works of Wilson and Kelling [1] in 1982, the “broken windows theory” seems to have been widely […]
We report on the existing connection between power-law distributions and allometries. As it was first reported in Gomez-Lievano et al. […]
We report on a quantitative analysis of relationships between the number of homicides, population size and ten other urban metrics. […]