The molecular interactions of crime
FEB 26, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024117
New Scientist : Using crime data from southern California, Jeffrey Brantingham of the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues set out to calculate how the movements of criminals and victims create opportunities for crime, and how police can reduce it. They came up with a pair of equations that could explain how local crime hotspots form—which turned out to be similar to those that describe molecular reactions and diffusion.
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