On 7 September this year, the BBC published a "crime risk calculator". A product of BBC…
Andromachi Tseloni and Ken PeaseNovember 1, 2017
In an extract from her book, Big Data: Does Size Matter?, Timandra Harkness meets data-based…
Timandra HarknessAugust 16, 2016
People often feel less safe when walking in the dark, for understandable reasons. It’s harder…
Brian TarranNovember 17, 2015
In a 2010 New York Times column, mathematician John Allen Paulos wrote about stories and…
Brian TarranAugust 12, 2015
Research has found that the rate of violent crime is 60% higher than official statistics…
Sylvia WalbyJune 15, 2015
Contrary to popular opinion, we have witnessed a fall in many types of crime over…
Rebecca ThompsonOctober 21, 2014
In mid-September, the US witnessed yet another mass shooting. This time a gunman made his…
Michael A. LewisSeptember 24, 2013
