Modelling established and emerging crime hotspots in a period of rapid homicide growth using spatio-temporal Hawkes processes
CrimRxiv preprint (2026)
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Summary. Applies spatio-temporal Hawkes (self-exciting) point process models to distinguish established from emerging crime hotspots during a period of rapid homicide growth, capturing the near-repeat triggering structure that drives clustering in space and time.