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Conspiracy to Commit: Information Pollution, Artificial Intelligence, and Real-World Hate Crime
Alberto Aziani, Michael V. Lo Giudice, Ali Shadman Yazdi
Is demand for conspiracy theories online linked to real-world hate crimes? By analyzing online search trends for 36 racially and politically-charged conspiracy theories in Michigan…
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…