University of Warwick Researchers Provide New Study Findings on Risk Management (Could social medias reflect acquisitive crime patterns in London?): Insurance – Risk Management

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2022 JUN 03 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx Policy and Law Daily -- A new study on risk management is now available. According to news originating from Coventry, United Kingdom, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “Embraced within the framework of crime opportunities integrated with Social Disorganization theory and Broken Windows theory, this paper intends to explore the patterns of four types of acquisitive crimes, using social media data i.e.”

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from University of Warwick: “Twitter, Foursquare and cross-sectional data acquired through text analysis technique. With Greater London as the study area, models like negative binominal regression (NBR) and geographically weighted regression (GWR) are performed to illustrate the aggregated relationships between acquisitive crimes and crime opportunities at London-wide and sub-regional MSOAs levels respectively. The results work towards to hypotheses that: the tweets sentiment could reflect property-related crime rates positively in light of Broken Windows Theory; more tweets with negative sentiment may incur increases of acquisitive crimes.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “It contributed to existing studies in (1) providing empirical evidence for integrating these three theories; (2) complementing current research on local discrepancies of acquisitive crimes by utilising both GWR and NBR models; (3) challenging the traditional stereotypes about racial disparities with the finding that ethnic heterogeneity and instrumental crimes have counterintuitive association, especially taking education factor into consideration; (4) implicating some localised acquisitive crime prevention strategies to policy makers in light of the reality that the relationship between local variations and different crime types may vary by place.”

For more information on this research see: Could social medias reflect acquisitive crime patterns in London?. Journal of Safety Science and Resilience, 2022,3(2):115-127. The publisher for Journal of Safety Science and Resilience is KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnlssr.2021.08.007.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Zenghui Wang, CIM, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom. Additional authors for this research include Yijing Li.