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

Much research has examined how crime rates vary across urban neighborhoods, focusing particularly on community-level demographic and social characteristics. A parallel line of work has treated crime at the individual level as an expression of certain behavioral patterns (e.g., impulsivity). Little w...

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Main Authors: Masoomali Fatehkia, Dan O'Brien, Ingmar Weber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211350