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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Situational Correlates of Adolescent Substance Use: An Improved Test of the Routine Activity Theory of Deviant Behavior

Situational Correlates of Adolescent Substance Use: An Improved Test of the Routine Activity Theory of Deviant Behavior Abstract Objectives To test the routine activity theory of deviance, we assess whether…
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“Location, Location, Location”: Effects of Neighborhood and House Attributes on Burglars’ Target Selection

“Location, Location, Location”: Effects of Neighborhood and House Attributes on Burglars’ Target Selection Abstract Objectives To empirically test whether offenders consider environmental features at multiple spatial scales when selecting a…
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Psychological Distress, Terrorist Involvement and Disengagement from Terrorism: A Sequence Analysis Approach

Psychological Distress, Terrorist Involvement and Disengagement from Terrorism: A Sequence Analysis Approach Abstract Objectives This paper utilizes probability-based modelling to unpack the complex and multifaceted individual, sociological, and psychological processes…
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Risk Factors for Violent Dissident Republican Incidents in Belfast: A Comparison of Bombings and Bomb Hoaxes

Risk Factors for Violent Dissident Republican Incidents in Belfast: A Comparison of Bombings and Bomb Hoaxes Abstract Objectives To identify risk factors for bombings and bomb hoaxes committed by dissident Republicans…
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