Publications

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Under review

Journal articles

  • Pina-Sánchez, J., Brunton-Smith, I., Buil-Gil, D., Cernat, A. (under review). rcme: A Sensitivity Analysis Tool to Explore the Impact of Measurement Error in Police Recorded Crime Rates

2023

Journal articles

  • Buil-Gil, D., Kemp, S., Kuenzel, S., Coventry, L., Zakhary, S., Tilley, D., Nicholson, J. (2023). The Digital Harms of Smart Home Devices: A Systematic Literature Review. Computers in Human Behavior, 145, 107770

Book chapters

  • Buil-Gil, D., Solymosi, R. (2023). Using Crowdsourced Data to Study Crime and Place. In E. Groff, C. Haberman (Eds.), Understanding Crime and Place: A Methods Handbook. Philadelphia: Temple University Press
  • Buil-Gil, D. (2023). Small Area Estimation for Crime Analysis. In E. Groff, C. Haberman (Eds.), Understanding Crime and Place: A Methods Handbook. Philadelphia: Temple University Press
  • Buil-Gil, D., Trajtenberg, N., Aebi, M. F. (in press). Measuring Cybercrime and Cyberdeviance in Surveys. In Routledge International Handbook of Online Deviance. Routledge
  • Zeng, Y., & Buil-Gil, D. (in press). Organizational and Organized Cybercrime. In H. Pontell (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. New York: Oxford University Press

Podcasts and interviews

  • “Innovative Methods in Criminology, March 2023 – “Measuring Crime in Small Areas

2022

Books

  • Buil-Gil, D. (2022). La Composición del Crimen: Una Aproximación Analítica. Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch

Journal articles

  • Pina-Sánchez, J., Buil-Gil, D., Brunton-Smith, I., Cernat, A. (2022). The Impact of Measurement Error in Models Using Police Recorded Crime Rates. Journal of Quantitative Criminology
  • Buil-Gil, D., Brunton-Smith, I., Pina-Sánchez, J., Cernat, A. (2022). Comparing Measurements of Violent Crime in Local Communities: A Case Study in Islington, London. Police Practice and Research, 23(4), 489-506
  • Buil-Gil, D., Mawby, R. I. (2022). Do Tourists Report Crime to the Police? An Exploratory Analysis in Barcelona. Current Issues in Tourism

Reports, blog posts and other publications

  • Buil-Gil, D., Pina-Sánchez, J., Brunton-Smith, I., Cernat, A. (2022). Bad Data, Worse Predictions: How Measurement Error in Crime Data Affects Crime Prevention. CREST Security Review, 13, 4-5
  • Buil-Gil, D., Zeng, Y. (2022, March). We All Like to Believe We’d Never Get Caught Out By a Romance Scam, But Don’t Be So Sure. i Newspaper
  • Buil-Gil, D., Nicholson, J., Kemp, S. (2022, March). Smart (and Safe) Homes – Public-Private Partnerships to Mitigate the Digital Harms of Smart Home Devices. Policy@Manchester Blog

Podcasts and interviews

  • Cybercrimeology Podcast, January 2022 – Twenty 22
  • Academia Ecuatoriana de Ciencias Penales y Criminológicas, March 2022 – “La Medición del Crimen y Su Impacto en la Investigación Criminológica”
  • Understanding Society Podcast, November 2022 – “Romance Fraud”

2021

Journal articles

  • Buil-Gil, D., Moretti, A., Langton, S. H. (2022). The Accuracy of Crime Statistics: Assessing the Impact of Police Data Bias on Geographic Crime Analysis. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 18, 515-541
  • Buil-Gil, D., Lord, N., Barrett, E. (2021). The Dynamics of Business, Cybersecurity and Cyber-victimization: Foregrounding the Internal Guardian in Prevention. Victims & Offenders, 16(3), 286-315
  • Kemp, S., Buil-Gil, D., Moneva, A., Miró-Llinares, F., Díaz-Castaño, N. (2021). Empty Streets, Busy Internet. A Time Series Analysis of Cybercrime and Fraud Trends during COVID-19. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 37(4), 480-501
  • Buil-Gil, D., Zeng, Y. (2022). Meeting You was a Fake: Investigating the Increase in Romance Fraud during COVID-19. Journal of Financial Crime, 29(2), 460-475
  • Buil-Gil, D., Zeng, Y., Kemp, S. (2021). Offline Crime Bounces Back to Pre-COVID Levels, Cyber Stays High: Interrupted Time-Series Analysis in Northern Ireland. Crime Science, 10(26)
  • Buil-Gil, D., and Saldaña-Taboada, P. (2022). Offending Concentration on the Internet: An Exploratory Analysis of Bitcoin-Related Cybercrime. Deviant Behavior, 43(12), 1453-1470
  • Cernat, A., Buil-Gil, D., Brunton-Smith, I., Pina-Sánchez, J., Murrià-Sangenís, M. (2022). Estimating Crime in Place: Moving Beyond Residence Location. Crime & Delinquency, 68(11), 2061–2091
  • Kemp, S., Buil-Gil, D., Miró-Llinares, F., and Lord, N. (2021). When Do Businesses Report Cybercrime? Findings from a UK Study. Criminology and Criminal Justice

Reports, blog posts and other publications

  • Kemp, S., Buil-Gil, D., Zeng, Y. (2021, September). Hands, Face, Cyber Space: How the Pandemic is Accelerating the Growth of Cybercrime. N8 Policing Research Partnership Blog
  • Zeng, Y., Moretti, A., Buil-Gil, D. (2021, September). Dark Figure of Crime: Do Police-Recorded Crime Statistics Serve All Areas of Greater Manchester Equally? Policy@Manchester Blog
  • Buil-Gil, D., Pina-Sánchez, J. (2021, April). El Progreso de la Criminología Cuantitativa en España. SEIC Blog

Podcasts and interviews

  • Cybercrimeology Podcast, June 2021 – VIVA las Villains: Exploring Cybercrime Against Businesses
  • POSTC Podcast, May 2021 – Entrevista a los Investigadores del Proyecto Recounting Crime

2020

Journal articles

  • Buil-Gil, D., Medina, J., Shlomo, N. (2021). Measuring the Dark Figure of Crime in Geographic Areas. Small Area Estimation from the Crime Survey for England and Wales. British Journal of Criminology, 61(2), 364–388
  • Buil-Gil, D., Miró-Llinares, F., Moneva, A., Kemp, S., Díaz-Castaño, N. (2021). Cybercrime and Shifts in Opportunities during COVID-19: A Preliminary Analysis in the UK. European Societies, S1, S47-S59
  • Solymosi, R., Buil-Gil, D., Vozmediano, L., Sousa Guedes, I. (2021). Towards a Place-based Measure of Fear of Crime: A Systematic Review of App-Based and Crowdsourcing Approaches. Environment and Behavior, 53(9), 1013-1044
  • Buil-Gil, D., Moretti, A., Shlomo, N., Medina, J. (2020). Applying the Spatial EBLUP to Place-Based Policing. Simulation Study and Application to Confidence in Police Work. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 13, 901-924

Book chapters

  • Buil-Gil, D., Langton, S. H. (2020). GIS and Geovisual Analysis. In P. Atkinson, S. Delamont, A. Cernat, J. W. Sakshaug, R. A. Williams (Eds.), SAGE Research Methods Foundations. SAGE
  • Buil-Gil, D., Solymosi, R., Moretti, A. (2020). Nonparametric Bootstrap and Small Area Estimation to Mitigate Bias in Crowdsourced Data. Simulation Study and Application to Perceived Safety. In C. Hill, P. Biemer, T. Buskirk, L. Japec, A. Kirchner, S. Kolenikov, L. Lyberg (Eds.), Big Data Meets Survey Science. Wiley

Reports, blog posts and other publications

  • Buil-Gil, D., Moneva, A., Kemp, S., Díaz-Castaño, N., Miró-Llinares, F. (2020). Recorded Cybercrime and Fraud Trends in UK During COVID-19. Statistical Bulletin on Crime and COVID-19, Issue 6. Leeds: University of Leeds
  • Buil-Gil, D., Lord, N., Barrett, E., Dresner, D., Higgins, B. (2020, March 19). Profiting from Pandemics: COVID-19, Changing Routines and Cyber Crimes. Policy@Manchester Blog
  • Barrett, E., Dresner, D., Buil-Gil, D. (2020, January). Why Victims of Cyber Crime Deserve ‘Cyber CPR’. In Policy@Manchester (Ed.), On Digital Trust. Analysis and Ideas on Trust and Security in a Digital Age (pp. 28-32). Manchester: Policy@Manchester

2019

Journal articles

  • Buil-Gil, D., Moretti, A., Shlomo, N., Medina, J. (2021). Worry About Crime in Europe. A Model-Based Small Area Estimation from the European Social Survey. European Journal of Criminology, 18(2), 274-298
  • Buil-Gil, D., Medina, J., Shlomo, N. (2019). The Geographies of Perceived Neighbourhood Disorder. A Small Area Estimation Approach. Applied Geography, 109, 102037
  • Buil-Gil, D., Gómez-Bellvis, A. B., Castro-Toledo, F. J. (2019). Waiting in the Wings. Reflexiones del I Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores en Criminología. International E-Journal of Criminal Sciences, 14, 1-22

Reports, blog posts and other publications

  • Buil-Gil, D. (2019). Small Area Estimation in Criminological Research: Theory, Methods, and Applications. PhD thesis, University of Manchester
  • Castro-Toledo, F. J, Gómez-Bellvis, A. B., Buil-Gil, D. (Eds.) (2019). La Criminología que Viene. Resultados del I Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores en Criminología. Barcelona: Red Española de Jóvenes Investigadores en Criminología

2017

Journal articles

  • Buil-Gil, D. (2017). Un Enfoque para el Estudio Ambiental del Miedo al Crimen: Aproximación Integradora al Enclave del Miedo (AIEM). Revista Electrónica de Ciencia Penal y Criminología, 19-04

Reports, blog posts and other publications

  • Buil-Gil, D. (2017, October 14). El Tamaño Importa. Aplicando las Técnicas de Estimación en Áreas Pequeñas a los Análisis Espaciales en Criminología. Spanish Network of Early Career Researchers in Criminology (REJIC) Blog
  • Buil-Gil, D. (2017, October 9). Sobre la Actuación de los Cuerpos de Policía el 1-O. EconomiaDigital.es
  • Buil-Gil, D. (2017, February 16). Un apunte sobre las nuevas aproximaciones teóricas y metodológicas para el estudio del miedo al crimen. Crimina Blog

2016

Journal articles

  • Buil-Gil, D. (2016). ¿Qué es la Criminología? Una Aproximación a su Ontología, Función y Desarrollo. Derecho y Cambio Social, 44

Book chapters

  • Buil-Gil, D. (2016). Nuevas Tendencias de la Criminología Global: Avanzando Hacia el Cosmopolitismo Crítico. In J. Rámila, D. Briggs, J. R. Pérez Suárez (Eds.), La Criminología de Hoy y del Mañana (pp. 63-78). Madrid: Dykinson
  • Buil-Gil, D. (2016). Introducción al Estudio del Miedo al Delito: Principios Teóricos. In G. A. T. Ríos (Ed.), Criminología. Enfoques multidisciplinarios (pp. 17-36). Lima: Fondo Editorial Universidad San Martín de Porres

Reports, blog posts and other publications

  • Buil-Gil, D., Moretti, A. (2016, December 20). Small Area Estimation for Targeting Hot-Spot Policing Interventions. British Society of Criminology Policing Network Blog
  • Buil-Gil, D. (2016). InseguridApp: Estudio Piloto de los Patrones de Distribución Espacio-Temporal de los Enclaves del Miedo (al Crimen) en Elche a Partir de una Nueva Aplicación Móvil. Masters’ thesis, Miguel Hernandez University
  • Buil-Gil, D. (2016). De la Parábola del Pescador Único al Realismo de la Cofradía de Pescadores: Una Reflexión Sobre los Debates Académicos Contemporáneos en Criminología. Criminología y Justicia Refurbished, 4, 136-141
  • Castro-Toledo, F. J., Buil-Gil, D. (2016). El Miedo (al Crimen) como Fuente de Política Criminal. Revista de Ciències Jurídiques, 1, 14-18