I am an associate professor at the Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science at University College London (UCL). I do research on how police can use data to reduce crime. I also run the CrimPapers journal-alerts service, and maintain the R packages crimedata and sfhotspot.
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CrimPapers
CrimPapers provides alerts for new articles published in over 100 criminology, criminal justice, crime science, penology and terrorism journals. Alerts are provided as a daily email update or an RSS feed.
R packages
crimedata
The crimedata package provides access to a database of police-recorded crime data from large US cities, sourced from the Crime Open Database.
crimemappingdata
The crimemappingdata package provides a variety of datasets that are useful in teaching crime mapping in R.
sfhotspot
The sfhotspot package provides functions for analysing hotspots and other concentrations of crime.
Get in touch
matthew.ashby@ucl.ac.uk
+44 (0) 20 3108 3890
35 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9EZ
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