Dr Ben Moews

Ben Moews is a Lecturer in Predictive Analytics at the University of Edinburgh.

With a background in machine learning, statistics and high-performance computing, his criminological research focusses on the spatio-temporal modelling of incident reports, the optimisation of public resource allocation for crime prevention, and the statistical analysis of policing and bias reduction.

Recent Publications

Moews, B., Argueta, J. R. and Gieschen, A. (2021), Filaments of crime: Informing policing via thresholded ridge estimation, Decision Support Systems, 144:113518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2021.113518