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Disentangling Community-level Changes in Crime Trends During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chicago
Gian Maria Campedelli, Serena Favarin, Alberto Aziani +1
Recent studies exploiting city-level time series have shown that, around the world, several crimes declined after COVID-19 containment policies have been put in place. Using data a…
Exploring the Effects of COVID-19 Containment Policies on Crime: An Empirical Analysis of the Short-term Aftermath in Los Angeles
Gian Maria Campedelli, Alberto Aziani, Serena Favarin
This work investigates whether and how COVID-19 containment policies had an immediate impact on crime trends in Los Angeles. The analysis is conducted using Bayesian structural tim…
A Policy-oriented Agent-based Model of Recruitment into Organized Crime
Gian Maria Campedelli, Francesco Calderoni, Mario Paolucci +4
Criminal organizations exploit their presence on territories and local communities to recruit new workforce in order to carry out their criminal activities and business. The abilit…
A Complex Networks Approach to Find Latent Clusters of Terrorist Groups
Gian Maria Campedelli, Iain Cruickshank, Kathleen M. Carley
Given the extreme heterogeneity of actors and groups participating in terrorist actions, investigating and assessing their characteristics can be important to extract relevant info…