TLDR; please let me know about open source code related criminology projects.

As part of my work with CrimRxiv, we have started the idea of creating a page to link to various open source criminology focused projects. That is overly broad, but high level here we are thinking for pragmatic resources (e.g. code repositories/packages, open source text books), as opposed to more traditional literature.

As part of our overlay journal we are starting, D1G1TAL & C0MPUTAT10NAL CR1M1N0L0GY, we are trying to get folks to submit open source work for a paper. (As a note, this will not have any charges to publish.) The motivation is two-fold: 1) this gives a venue to get your code peer reviewed (e.g. similar to the Journal of Open Source Software). This is mainly for the writer, to give academic recognition for your open source work. 2) Is for the consumer of the information, it is a nice place to keep up on current developments. If you write an R package to do some cool analysis I want to be aware of it!

For 2, we can accomplish something similar by just linking to current projects. I have started a spreadsheet of links I am collating for now, (in the future will update to this page, you need to be signed into CrimRxiv to see that list). For examples of the work I have collated so far:

• Crime Analysis ArcGIS John Beck/Chris Delaney have started a video series on using ArcGIS crime analyst plug-in. (Even though ArcGIS is not open source, the tutorials are, so I am counting this.)
• Grant Drawve has video tutorials on Youtube using Excel to conduct various crime analyses. (Again Excel is not open source, but the tutorials are.)
• Jacob Kaplan’s Crime by the Numbers is an R tutorial.
• Reka Solymosi & Juanjo Medina, Crime Mapping in R
• Matt Ashby, crime open database and crimedata for managing the open crime data easier (both in R)
• Jill Dando Institute JDI open resources has a bunch of different lectures on open science, such as Patricio Estévez-Soto has a tutorial on creating R packages

Then we have various R packages from folks floating around; Greg Ridgeway, Jerry Ratcliffe, Wouter Steenbeek (as well as the others I mentioned previously you can check out their other projects on Github). Please add in info into the google spreadsheet, comment here, or send me an email if you would like some work you have done (or know others have done) that should be added.

Again I want to know about your work!