Diversifying Crime Datasets in Introductory Statistical Courses in Criminology
Diversifying Crime Datasets in Introductory Statistical Courses in Criminology
David Buil-GilLaura BuiNico TrajtenbergTomas DiviakEon KimReka SolymosiDepartment of Criminology, The University of Manchester, UKDavid Buil-Gil is Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Criminology and Open Research Lead at the Department of Criminology of The University of Manchester, and Academic Lead for Digital Technologies and Crime at the Manchester Centre for Digital Trust and Society. He is the co-chair of the European Network for Open Criminology. His research areas cover geographic criminology, small area estimation applications in criminology, measurement error in criminological research, new methods for data collection, and open data.Laura Bui is Lecturer in Criminology at The University of Manchester and a chartered psychologist, with an educational background in criminology and psychology. She holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge; M.A. from Boston University; and B.A. from the University of California, Irvine. Her work is centered around three areas of research: young people and offending, social narratives on crime and criminality, and violence prevention. With these, she is interested in an international and comparative approach that often draws on the psychological.Nico Trajtenberg is Lecturer in Criminology at the Department of Criminology of The University of Manchester. Previously, he held positions at Cardiff University and Universidad de la República del Uruguay. Nico completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge and his Master’s Degree at Oxford University. His research interests include cross-cultural criminology, mixed-methods research, prison and recidivism, and crime in the Global South.Tomas Diviak is Presidential Fellow at the Department of Criminology and the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis at The University of Manchester. He obtained his Ph.D. in Sociology at Charles University (Czechia) and University of Groningen (Netherlands) with a thesis called “Criminal networks: actors, mechanisms, and structures.” His research focuses on social network analysis (SNA), most prominently statistical models for network data, and on analytical sociology and criminology. He is interested in the application of SNA, mainly to criminal networks, but also to political, organizational, health-related, or historical networks.Eon Kim is Lecturer in Criminology at the Department of Criminology at The University of Manchester, and the Director of the New Researchers in Policing Network of the N8 Policing Research Partnership. Her research interests cover crime and place and quantitative research methods. She holds a PhD in Security and Crime Science from University College London.Reka Solymosi is Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at the Department of Criminology at The University of Manchester. She is a member of the Software Sustainability Institute and an Honorary Lecturer at University College London. Her research focuses on making use of new forms of data to gain insight into people’s behavior and subjective experiences, particularly focusing on crime, victimization, transport, and spatial research. She is also dedicated to promoting data literacy in social science study and practice.