Crime sensing with Big Data: the affordances and limitations of using open-source communications to estimate crime patterns

This paper critically examines the affordances and limitations of big data for the study of crime and disorder. We hypothesize that disorder-related posts on Twitter are associated with actual police crime rates. Our results provide evidence that naturally occurring social media data may provide an...

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Main Author: Williams, Matthew L. (Author)
Contributors: Burnap, Pete ; Sloan, Luke
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: The British journal of criminology
Online Access: Presumably Free Access
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Keywords:
Big data
Broken windows
Computational criminology
Datensammlung
Informatik-basierte Kriminologie
Open-source communications
Predictive policing
Social media
Soziale Medien