Understanding the Patterns of Crime Reports in a Popular Bangladeshi Newspaper

Md Mehedi Hassan; Ashik Adnan; Asif M. Saleheen; Md Naimul Hoque

doi:10.1145/3272973.3274062

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Understanding the Patterns of Crime Reports in a Popular Bangladeshi Newspaper

Md Mehedi Hassan, Ashik Adnan, Asif M. Saleheen and Md Naimul Hoque

Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, pp.229-232

ACM Conferences

CSCW '18: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

10/30/2018

DOI: 10.1145/3272973.3274062

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Abstract

Bangladesh, being a developing country with approximately 1252 people living in per square kilometer and many people living under poverty line, is understandably has a high crime rate. Corruption, political unrest, and misuse of law has also aided the increase of crime rate over the years. Despite this, Bangladeshi print media and paper journalism is well known for their liberal mentality and efficiency in reporting correct and truthful news. In this paper, we use crime reports of a popular newspaper to understand the patterns and frequencies of crimes in different regions of Bangladesh. Our analysis shows that, this newspaper is biased towards reporting crimes from specific regions while some regions are seriously neglected. Although region based bias is found, no biases towards reporting crimes of any specific types are found in our study.

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Human-centered computing -- Collaborative and social computing -- Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms -- Computer supported cooperative work

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Title: Subtitle: Understanding the Patterns of Crime Reports in a Popular Bangladeshi Newspaper
Creators: Md Mehedi Hassan - Eastern University
Ashik Adnan - Eastern University
Asif M. Saleheen - University of Dhaka
Md Naimul Hoque - Stony Brook University
Resource Type: Conference proceeding
Publication Details: Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, pp.229-232
Conference: CSCW '18: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Publisher: ACM
Series: ACM Conferences
DOI: 10.1145/3272973.3274062
Number of pages: 4
Language: English
Date published: 10/30/2018
Academic Unit: Computer Science
Record Identifier: 9984787257902771

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