More crime in cities? On the scaling laws of crime and the inadequacy of per capita rankings—a cross-country study

Abstract Crime rates per capita are used virtually everywhere to rank and compare cities. However, their usage relies on a strong linear assumption that crime increases at the same pace as the number of people in a region. In this paper, we demonstrate that using per capita rates to rank cities can...

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Autor principal: Marcos Oliveira
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Publicado: BMC 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/86e406a55ff64f289cc6707ef28a4b0d
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