Special Issue "Sustainability on Crime Analysis and Public Safety"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Lin Liu
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Guest Editor
Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, USA
Interests: GIS; remote sensing; GIS applications; crime analysis; public safety; big data
Prof. Guangwen Song
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Center of GeoInformatics for Public Security, School of Geography and Remote Sensing,Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China.
Interests: spatial–temporal behavior; crime geography; public safety

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Crime analysis for crime prevention and policing helps ensure public safety. Theories, methodologies and applications of crime analysis have evolved rapidly in the era of big data. Theories of environmental criminology have guided crime analysis for many years. Lately, new data generated from big data have led to new opportunities for theoretical and empirical research. For example, ambient population derived from high-resolution spatio-temporal big data have greatly improved the performance of various crime models. Streetview images provide a new data source for micro environmental audit, which has facilitated place-based research at a finer spatial scale. New methodologies such as machine learning have been used crime analysis and crime prediction at increased spatio-temporal resolutions. Such detailed knowledge has shown imporved effectiveness in targeted crime prevention. At the same time, new challenges have emerged as well. For example, fraud has replaced traditional crime types as the dominant crime in many cities. We have not been able to fight fraud effectively as this time. This special issue of Sustainability on Crime Analysis and Public Safety takes an interdisciplinary approach to tackle the above complex issues. This special issue aims to explore the interdisciplinary innovation to enhance research and application of crime analysis and public safety. We welcome contributions in theories, methods and applications. 

On behalf of Sustainability, a peer-reviewed open-access journal, we are honored to invite you to contribute papers for the upcoming special issue on "Crime Analysis and Public Safety". Papers published in this journal could potentially reach broader audience, compared to traditional crime and geography journals.

This special issue focuses on the frontier research of crime analysis and public safety, especially those of interdisciplinary nature that take advantage of new data and new methodologies.

Scope:

  • New theories and new methods for crime analysis
  • Spatial analysis of public safety with urban GIS
  • Crime analysis in virtual environments
  • Crime hot spot and crime mapping
  • Crime location choice and offender behavior
  • Big data, machine learning and crime prediction
  • Micro environment and public safety
  • Crime prevention and policing
  • Assessment of crime prevention strategies
  • Fraud and cyber crime
  • Perception of safety

Keywords

  • crime analysis
  • public safety
  • spatial and temporal analysis
  • GIS technology

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Multicriteria Ranking for the Efficient and Effective Assessment of Police Departments
Sustainability 2021, 13(8), 4251; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084251 - 12 Apr 2021
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The nonparametric assessment of police efficiency and effectiveness is challenging due to the stochastic nature of criminal behavior and the subjective dependence on multiple decision criteria, leading to different prospects depending on the regulation, necessity, or organizational objective. There is a trade-off between [...] Read more.
The nonparametric assessment of police efficiency and effectiveness is challenging due to the stochastic nature of criminal behavior and the subjective dependence on multiple decision criteria, leading to different prospects depending on the regulation, necessity, or organizational objective. There is a trade-off between sustainable efficiency and effectiveness in many police performance assessments, because many departments can be crime-specialized or cannot reproduce good results effectively on more severe or complex occurrences. This study aims to provide a non-compensatory ranking classification combining Conditional Frontier Analysis with the PROMETHEE II methodology for the multidimensional efficiency and effectiveness analysis of police. The results on Pernambuco (Brazil) Police departments offer interesting perspectives for public administrations concerning prioritizations of units based on the mitigation of resources and strategic objectives. Full article
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