David Buil-Gil

Embargoed until 16 August 2022

The unprecedented changes in routine activities brought about by COVID-19 and the associated lockdown measures contributed to a reduction in opportunities for predatory crimes in outdoor physical spaces, while people spent more time connected to the internet, and ...

Article published in Crime Science: Buil-Gil, D., Zeng, Y. & Kemp, S. Offline crime bounces back to pre-COVID levels, cyber stays high: interrupted time-series analysis in Northern Ireland. Crime Sci 10, 26 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40163-021-00162-9

Police-recorded crimes are used by police forces to document community differences in crime and design spatially targeted strategies. Nevertheless, crimes known to police are affected by selection biases driven by underreporting. This paper presents a simulation study to ...

Brunton-Smith, I., Buil-Gil, D., Pina-Sánchez, J., Cernat, A., & Moretti, A. (in press). Using Synthetic Crime Data to Understand Patterns of Police Under-Counting at the Local Level. In L. Huey & D. Buil-Gil (Eds.), The Crime Data Handbook. Bristol: Policy Press.

Zeng, Y., & Buil-Gil, D. (in press). Organizational and Organized Cybercrime. In H. Pontell (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.