TY - GEN
T1 - Dynamic simulation of community crime and crime-reporting behavior
AU - Yonas, Michael A.
AU - Borrebach, Jeffrey D.
AU - Burke, Jessica G.
AU - Brown, Shawn T.
AU - Philp, Katherine D.
AU - Burke, Donald S.
AU - Grefenstette, John J.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - An agent-based model was developed to explore the effectiveness of possible interventions to reduce neighborhood crime and violence. Both offenders and non-offenders (or citizens) were modeled as agents living in neighborhoods, with a set of rules controlling changes in behavior based on individual experience. Offenders may become more or less inclined to actively commit criminal offenses, depending on the behavior of the neighborhood residents and other nearby offenders, and on their arrest experience. In turn, citizens may become more or less inclined to report crimes, based on the observed prevalence of criminal activity within their neighborhood. This paper describes the basic design and dynamics of the model, and how such models might be used to investigate practical crime intervention programs.
AB - An agent-based model was developed to explore the effectiveness of possible interventions to reduce neighborhood crime and violence. Both offenders and non-offenders (or citizens) were modeled as agents living in neighborhoods, with a set of rules controlling changes in behavior based on individual experience. Offenders may become more or less inclined to actively commit criminal offenses, depending on the behavior of the neighborhood residents and other nearby offenders, and on their arrest experience. In turn, citizens may become more or less inclined to report crimes, based on the observed prevalence of criminal activity within their neighborhood. This paper describes the basic design and dynamics of the model, and how such models might be used to investigate practical crime intervention programs.
KW - agent-based model
KW - computer simulation
KW - crime prevention
KW - neighborhood violence
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-19656-0_16
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-19656-0_16
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79952369898
SN - 9783642196553
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 97
EP - 104
BT - Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction - 4th International Conference, SBP 2011, Proceedings
T2 - 4th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction, SBP 2011
Y2 - 29 March 2011 through 31 March 2011
ER -