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From storytelling to scripting: eight principles for deconstructing crime events.
This paper aims to improve crime script analysis, with a particular focus on breaking script stages into smaller, more precise steps. After outlining existing scripting methods, we then introduce eight principles designed to guide both the creation of crime scripts and the evaluation of scripts produced by others. Grounded in the concepts of state and activity, these principles address the following themes: Constitution, Chronology, Composition, Cardinality, Categorisation, Completeness, Clarity, and Consistency. Finally, we discuss the limits of template based approaches, including those built around the universal script. We call for the development of a more flexible scripting method, one that retains the chronological and functional cues of the universal script, but can be applied at any level of abstraction and resolution. Within this context, we believe the above principles can play another important role in its development.
Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s40163-026-00286-w.
期刊介绍:
Crime Science is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal with an applied focus. The journal''s main focus is on research articles and systematic reviews that reflect the growing cooperation among a variety of fields, including environmental criminology, economics, engineering, geography, public health, psychology, statistics and urban planning, on improving the detection, prevention and understanding of crime and disorder. Crime Science will publish theoretical articles that are relevant to the field, for example, approaches that integrate theories from different disciplines. The goal of the journal is to broaden the scientific base for the understanding, analysis and control of crime and disorder. It is aimed at researchers, practitioners and policy-makers with an interest in crime reduction. It will also publish short contributions on timely topics including crime patterns, technological advances for detection and prevention, and analytical techniques, and on the crime reduction applications of research from a wide range of fields. Crime Science publishes research articles, systematic reviews, short contributions and theoretical articles. While Crime Science uses the APA reference style, the journal welcomes submissions using alternative reference styles on a case-by-case basis.