Crime

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Understanding the causes of crime is a longstanding issue in researcher’s agenda. While it is a hard task to extract causality …

This week’s most thought-provoking papers from the Physics arXiv. by Emerging Technology from the arXiv January 20, 2018.

According to the World Bank, corruption scandals siphon more than $2 trillion per year from the global economy, making corruption one of the major causes of slow economic growth and socioeconomic inequality. Now in a new study, researchers have demonstrated that it may be possible to predict who will play a role in future scandals by modeling current scandals using networks. The results may provide a tool for detecting corruptive practices and reducing the high cost of corruption to society.

Corruptive behaviour in politics limits economic growth, embezzles public funds, and promotes socio-economic inequality in modern …

Groups in Brazil and abroad use new metrics to identify trends in city growth.

More than a half of world population is now living in cities and this number is expected to be two-thirds by 2050. Fostered by the …

The spatial dynamics of criminal activities has been recently studied through statistical physics methods; however, models and results …

Two upcoming papers in Physical Review Letters shed a light on the way that scientists can use analogies to understand fundamental physical processes.

We report on the existing connection between power-law distributions and allometries. As it was first reported in [PLoS ONE 7, e40393 …