How After-Hours Population Composition Affects Crime: Analyzing Resident-Visitor Ratios in Urban Neighborhoods Throughout the Day
How After-Hours Population Composition Affects Crime: Analyzing Resident-Visitor Ratios in Urban Neighborhoods Throughout the Day
Stan Korotchenko Junghwan Bae Olga Semukhina Christopher Copeland a Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX, USAb Tarleton State University, Fort Worth, TX, USADr. Junghwan Bae specializes in criminology, environmental justice, and spatial analysis. Currently, Bae conducts spatiotemporal analyses of neighborhood crime in Texas, focusing on the relationship between human mobility patterns and crime. His work also examines ecological disorganization, concentrated disadvantage, and crime rates, using environmental hazard indicators such as air pollution and proximity to hazardous chemical facilities.Dr. Stan Korotchenko, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Tarleton State University, researches how advanced technology enhances policing, focusing on crime prevention, data-driven decision-making, and AI integration. His work examines how human mobility influences crime, demographic patterns in victimization, and spatial-temporal crime trends. He explores how population density and movement shape crime risks and law enforcement strategies. Additionally, he studies how law enforcement agencies use generative AI for crime analysis, investigations, and administrative tasks, as well as the challenges of AI adoption. His research provides insights into crime patterns and informs evidence-based policing strategies. His work has been published in Crime & Delinquency, Victims & Offenders, and Journal of Quantitative Criminology, among others. Through collaborations with law enforcement agencies, he applies data-driven insights to crime prevention and policing strategies, contributing to the development of evidence- based approaches in the field.Dr. Olga B. Semukhina is a Professor at the School of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Public Administration and the Director of the Institute for Predictive and Analytical Policing Science at Tarleton State University. She holds MS and PhD degrees from the University of Central Florida and JD and LLM degrees from Tomsk State University. With over 15 years of experience collaborating with law enforcement agencies in Florida, Wisconsin, and Texas, her research focuses on public perceptions of police, intelligence and data-sharing, spatial crime analysis, and community-policing strategies. She has secured $974,000 in external grants from the National Institute of Justice and the U.S. State Department. Her publications include 20 peer-reviewed articles, three book chapters, and two books, with work appearing in Crime and Delinquency, the American Journal of Criminal Justice, and the British Journal of Criminology. She teaches doctoral courses on Predictive Policing, Research Methods, and Criminal Law while overseeing the Crime Analysis Certificate programs.Dr. Christopher Copeland is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and the Director of the Institute for Homeland Security and Cybercrime at Tarleton. He is considered an authority on the topic of cybercrime and cybersecurity. With a specialization in technology, his research interests include cybercrimes, homeland security, critical infrastructure, human trafficking, and the application of technology in law enforcement. In 2022, Dr. Copeland served as a Fulbright Specialist in Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure for the U.S. State Department and the World Learning Organization. In addition to completing his D.Sc. degree from Dakota State University, he has obtained several professional certifications including the coveted CISSP and vendor specific certifications. Prior to entering an academic environment, he spent over nineteen years in the field of information technology working and consulting for companies including American Airlines, Sabre, EDS, National Checking, Vertis Communications, and subsidiaries Berkshire Hathaway.