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Martin A. Andresen

Martin A. Andresen

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
44
Citations
10076
World Ranking
4083
National Ranking
243

Overview

Martin A. Andresen is affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada and focuses primarily on research within the Social Sciences. Their work spans several specialized subfields, including Sociology and Political Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, and Modeling and Simulation.

The core themes of Andresen's research revolve around Crime Patterns and Interventions, Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance, as well as Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses. Additional topics include Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies, Homelessness and Social Issues, Spatial and Panel Data Analysis, and Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis.

Andresen's publication record includes contributions to a variety of academic journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • CrimRxiv
  • Journal of Criminal Justice
  • Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice/La Revue canadienne de criminologie et de justice pénale
  • Crime Science
  • The British Journal of Criminology

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint: Changes in the frequency of criminal incidents during the COVID-19 pandemic," 2020, Journal of Criminal Justice
  • "Somehow I always end up alone: COVID-19, social isolation and crime in Queensland, Australia," 2020, Crime Science
  • "Minimum geocoding match rates: an international study of the impact of data and areal unit sizes," 2020, International Journal of Geographical Information Systems
  • "Modifiable areal unit problem," 2021, CrimRxiv
  • "Crime concentrations at micro places: A review of the evidence," 2024, Aggression and Violent Behavior

Throughout their academic career, Andresen has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including Tarah Hodgkinson, Olivia K. Ha, Samantha Henderson, David Weisburd, and Nick Malleson.

Best Publications

  • Obesity relationships with community design, physical activity, and time spent in cars

    Lawrence D. Frank;Martin A. Andresen;Martin A. Andresen;Thomas L. Schmid

  • Asynchronous Discussion Forums: Success Factors, Outcomes, Assessments, and Limitations

    Martin A. Andresen

  • Crime Measures and the Spatial Analysis of Criminal Activity

    Martin A. Andresen

  • Testing the Stability of Crime Patterns: Implications for Theory and Policy:

    Martin A. Andresen;Nicolas Malleson

  • A spatial analysis of crime in Vancouver, British Columbia: a synthesis of social disorganization and routine activity theory

    Martin A. Andresen

  • Crime and Place: A Longitudinal Examination of Street Segment Patterns in Vancouver, BC

    Andrea S. N. Curman;Martin A. Andresen;Paul J. Brantingham

  • Crime seasonality and its variations across space

    Martin A. Andresen;Nicolas Malleson

  • The impact of using social media data in crime rate calculations: shifting hot spots and changing spatial patterns

    Nick Malleson;Martin A. Andresen

  • A cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis of Vancouver’s Supervised Injection Facility

    Martin A. Andresen;Neil Boyd

  • The (in)appropriateness of aggregating across crime types

    Martin A. Andresen;Shannon J. Linning

  • The Ambient Population and Crime Analysis

    Martin A. Andresen

  • Testing for similarity in area-based spatial patterns: A nonparametric Monte Carlo approach

    Martin A. Andresen

  • Spatio-temporal crime hotspots and the ambient population

    Nick Malleson;Martin A Andresen

  • Exploring the impact of ambient population measures on London crime hotspots

    Nick Malleson;Martin A. Andresen

  • The Trajectories of Crime at Places: Understanding the Patterns of Disaggregated Crime Types

    Martin A. Andresen;Andrea S. Curman;Shannon J. Linning

  • Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint: Changes in the frequency of criminal incidents during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Tarah Hodgkinson;Martin A. Andresen

  • Crime at Places and Spatial Concentrations: Exploring the Spatial Stability of Property Crime in Vancouver BC, 2003–2013

    Martin A. Andresen;Shannon J. Linning;Nick Malleson

  • Crime concentrations and similarities in spatial crime patterns in a Brazilian context

    Silas Nogueira de Melo;Lindon Fonseca Matias;Martin A. Andresen

  • Location Quotients, Ambient Populations, and the Spatial Analysis of Crime in Vancouver, Canada:

    Martin A Andresen

  • Environmental Criminology: Evolution, Theory, and Practice

    Martin A. Andresen

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham Farrell
Graham Farrell University of Leeds
Eric Beauregard
Eric Beauregard Simon Fraser University
Shane D. Johnson
Shane D. Johnson University College London
Anthony A. Braga
Anthony A. Braga University of Pennsylvania
Lawrence D. Frank
Lawrence D. Frank University of California, San Diego

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