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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Autores principales: Williams, Matthew L. 1976- (Autor) ; Burnap, Pete (Autor) ; Sloan, Luke (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2017
En: The British journal of criminology
Año: 2017, Volumen: 57, Número: 2, Páginas: 320-240
Acceso en línea: Presumably Free Access
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Palabras clave:
Social media
Computational criminology
Predictive policing
Big data
Broken windows
Open-source communications
Datensammlung
Soziale Medien
Informatik-basierte Kriminologie