Location Choice of Snatching Offenders in Chennai City
Location Choice of Snatching Offenders in Chennai City Abstract Objectives We aim to test the applicability of crime pattern theory in an Indian urban context by assessing the effects of…
Global Crime Patterns: An Analysis of Survey Data from 166 Countries Around the World, 2006–2019
Global Crime Patterns: An Analysis of Survey Data from 166 Countries Around the World, 2006–2019 Abstract Objectives This article explores the merits of commercially-based survey data on crime through cross-validation…
Recruitment into Organized Crime: An Agent-Based Approach Testing the Impact of Different Policies
Recruitment into Organized Crime: An Agent-Based Approach Testing the Impact of Different Policies Abstract Objectives We test the effects of four policy scenarios on recruitment into organized crime. The policy…
Are Repeatedly Extorted Businesses Different? A Multilevel Hurdle Model of Extortion Victimization
Are Repeatedly Extorted Businesses Different? A Multilevel Hurdle Model of Extortion Victimization Abstract Objectives Research consistently shows that crime concentrates on a few repeatedly victimized places and targets. In this…
Are Trustworthiness and Legitimacy ‘Hard to Win, Easy to Lose’? A Longitudinal Test of the Asymmetry Thesis of Police-Citizen Contact
Are Trustworthiness and Legitimacy ‘Hard to Win, Easy to Lose’? A Longitudinal Test of the Asymmetry Thesis of Police-Citizen Contact Abstract Objectives Test the asymmetry thesis of police-citizen contact that…
When Do Offenders Commit Crime? An Analysis of Temporal Consistency in Individual Offending Patterns
When Do Offenders Commit Crime? An Analysis of Temporal Consistency in Individual Offending Patterns Abstract Objectives Building on Hägerstrand’s time geography, we expect temporal consistency in individual offending behavior. We…
Forecasting Spatio-Temporal Variation in Residential Burglary with the Integrated Laplace Approximation Framework: Effects of Crime Generators, Street Networks, and Prior Crimes
Forecasting Spatio-Temporal Variation in Residential Burglary with the Integrated Laplace Approximation Framework: Effects of Crime Generators, Street Networks, and Prior Crimes Abstract Objectives We investigate the spatio-temporal variation of monthly…
Police Legitimacy and the Norm to Cooperate: Using a Mixed Effects Location-Scale Model to Estimate the Strength of Social Norms at a Small Spatial Scale
Police Legitimacy and the Norm to Cooperate: Using a Mixed Effects Location-Scale Model to Estimate the Strength of Social Norms at a Small Spatial Scale Abstract Objectives Test whether cooperation…
Prying Open the Black Box of Causality: A Causal Mediation Analysis Test of Procedural Justice Policing
Prying Open the Black Box of Causality: A Causal Mediation Analysis Test of Procedural Justice Policing Abstract Objectives Review causal mediation analysis as a method for estimating and assessing direct…
Victimization and Its Consequences for Well-Being: A Between- and Within-Person Analysis
Victimization and Its Consequences for Well-Being: A Between- and Within-Person Analysis Abstract Objectives We examined the effects of victimization on several aspects of well-being in a longitudinal study of a…
Assessing the Spatial Concentration of Urban Crime: An Insight from Nigeria
Assessing the Spatial Concentration of Urban Crime: An Insight from Nigeria Abstract Objective Research demonstrates that crime is concentrated. This finding is so consistent that David Weisburd refers to this…
Plea Bargaining and the Miscarriage of Justice
Plea Bargaining and the Miscarriage of Justice Abstract Objectives We examine whether, on average, plea bargaining encourages guilty pleas among defendants who are factually innocent. Methods We develop a formal…