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Violence Hotspots

Violence Hotspots is a spatial epidemiological construct that identifies specific geographic areas with statistically significant aggregations of violent incidents, distinguishing itself from general population-level analyses by focusing on localized concentrations of violence for targeted intervention and resource allocation.

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2.2K

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144

Authors

103

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

29

Variants

Violence Hot Spots

Parents

Publications

55

External Shocks, Internal Shots: The Geography of Civil Conflicts

Nicolas Berman, Mathieu Couttenier · The Review of Economics and Statistics · 2015 · 161 citations

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The urban rise and fall of air lead (Pb) and the latent surge and retreat of societal violence

Howard W. Mielke, Sammy Zahran · Environment International · 2012 · 148 citations

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Effects of temperature and precipitation variability on the risk of violence in sub-Saharan Africa, 1980–2012

John Ο’Loughlin, Andrew M. Linke, Frank D. W. Witmer · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2014 · 138 citations · Full text

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Quantifying Disparities in Urban Firearm Violence by Race and Place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: A Cartographic Study

Jessica H. Beard, Christopher N. Morrison, Sara F. Jacoby et al. · American Journal of Public Health · 2017 · 128 citations · Full text

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Long-term environmental change and geographical patterns of violence in Darfur, 2003–2005

Alexander De Juan · Political Geography · 2014 · 96 citations

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Authors

144

  1. BB
    Blake Byron Walker

    Simon Fraser University, Canada

    4 publications · 121 citations

    4

    h-index

  2. NS
    Nadine Schuurman

    Simon Fraser University, Canada

    4 publications · 121 citations

    4

    h-index

  3. OD
    Oeindrila Dube

    University of Chicago, United States

    3 publications · 87 citations

    3

    h-index

  4. SB
    Samuel Bazzi

    Boston University, United States

    3 publications · 87 citations

    3

    h-index

  5. MG
    Matthew Gudgeon

    United States Military Academy, United States

    3 publications · 87 citations

    3

    h-index

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Institutions

103

  1. Simon Fraser University

    Burnaby, Canada

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    206 citations

  2. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    4 h-index

    17 publications

    447 citations

  3. Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Jerusalem, Israel

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    103 citations

  4. Monash University

    Melbourne, Australia

    2 h-index

    8 publications

    912 citations

  5. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    2 h-index

    8 publications

    931 citations

  6. Carol I National Defence University

    Bucharest, Romania

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    66 citations

  7. Boston University

    Boston, United States

    2 h-index

    9 publications

    264 citations

  8. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    54 citations

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Venues

  1. Political Geography

    3 publications · 191 citations

    3

    h-index

  2. Drug and Alcohol Review

    2 publications · 107 citations

    2

    h-index

  3. The Review of Economics and Statistics

    2 publications · 199 citations

    2

    h-index

  4. BMC Women s Health

    2 publications · 52 citations

    2

    h-index

  5. Security Journal

    2 publications · 23 citations

    2

    h-index

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