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The Innovative use of Technology in Understanding Crime
Thu, Nov 20, 8:00 to 9:20am, Marriott, Sierra H, 5th FloorSession Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel
Abstract
This session will look at how we can use everyday technology, including Google Maps and Street View, Facebook and laptop simulations of everyday environments to understand the mechanisms involved in undertaking crime. It will include a session on how Facebook can be used to enhance the future selves of young people and so reduce teenage delinquency and a session on how Google technology can be used to understand how burglars assess their targets as well as their awareness of space and journey to crime. We will finish with a session describing the use of virtual reality simulations of residential neighbourhoods which can be virtually ‘burgled’ in order to understand offenders’ decision-making and spatial navigation at the scene of the crime.
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Individual Presentations
Friends with my future self on Facebook: Using social media to reduce delinquency - Jean-Louis van Gelder, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR)
Should criminologists be feeling lucky!? Applying Google Maps and Google Street View in environmental criminological research - Tom Vander Beken, Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy, Ghent University; Christophe Vandeviver, Ghent University
Simulating residential environments to understand burglary: preliminary results from a new project - Claire Nee, University of Portsmouth; Jean-Louis van Gelder, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR); Andrew Lemieux, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR); Marco Otte, Vrij University, Amsterdam; Stijn Ruiter, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR)