... 505 complete spatial randomness, 507 contiguity types, 504 cross-product, 509 Euclidean distance, 505 inverse weighted distance, 506 k-nearest neighbors, 505 Manhattan distance, 505 mean crime deviations, 508 Pearson's correlation ...
... prevention scholars in England ( Clarke , 1980 , 1983 ; Clarke and Cornish , 1985 ) . In part because of the seeming failures of offender - centered crime prevention strategies ( e.g. , see Lipton et al . , 1975 ; Martinson , 1974 ...
This has already been a key factor in development and lack of development of work in this area. We believe the first detailed empirical examination of the distribution of crime across microgeographic places is Shaw's identification of ...
There is good evidence that the police can control crime hot spots without simply displacing crime problems to other places.
Around the 1940s, pioneers including Kurt Lewin, Egon Brunswik, and Roger Barker pointed out that people act differently within different social and physical settings. They argued that we cannot gain a full understanding of human ...
... 1981; Brower, 1980; Jacobs, 1961; Taylor, Gottfredson, and Brower, 1984; Unger and Wandersman, 1983). Ecological psychology in particular has attempted to understand how places function (Barker, 1968; Wicker, 1987).
Table 5.8 Duncan SEI for Bribery and Antitrust Offenders CATEGORY N s Bribery 83 59.27 19.45 Antitrust 112 61.05 11.13 Total () 195 X The standard deviation is a useful statistic for comparing the extent to which characteristics are ...
They do not take the physical skills and dexterity of many forms of street crime , or even the consummate skills of con artists like the legendary Yellow Kid Weil . 16 Many of the crimes require not much more than the ability to read ...
"This tenth volume in the Advances in Criminological Theory series is dedicated to the work of Albert J. Reiss, Jr. It focuses on the relationship between crime and social organization that is so central to his work.
This innovative guide breaks new ground by providing technical guidance to assist crime analysts seeking to produce juvenile hot spot maps.
Finally, the book also examines the impact of fighting terrorism on minority and majority communities, and the questions of legitimacy that are raised by new roles that police take on.
However, general, detailed and highly informative guidelines of analytical criminology as a distinct research paradigm are not available at the moment. The similarities are often larger than the differences between analytical ...
This is an invitation to police scholars and practitioners across the world to come and join in this venture." Dilip K. Das, PhD,
This book will be the go-to book for new and advanced methods in the field that will provide overviews of the key issues, with examples and figures as warranted, for students, faculty, and researchers alike.
The book brings together eighteen top scholars in criminology and place to provide comprehensive research expanding across different themes.
Reviews innovations in policing over the last four decades, bringing together top policing scholars to discuss whether police should adopt these approaches.
Eligible studies for this review had to meet rigorous methodological criteria set forth by Campbell.
The book will synthesize and integrate better what are often disparate ideas, themes, and methods across substantive areas of white-collar crime and criminology and criminal justice.
In general, the text relies on a building-block approach, meaning that each chapter helps to prepare the student for the chapters that follow. It also means that the level of sophistication of the text increases as the text progresses.
Police Innovation and Control of the Police: Problems of Law, Order, and Community