A Police Response Effort Index to complement counts and harm indices in understanding crime and policing demand

Autor: Sophie Curtis-Ham, Ryan Jones, Emily Dunstan, Renee Looc, Cathrin Jordan

Publikováno v: Crime Science, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2024)

Abstract Responding to crime and non-crime policing demand in the increasingly complex policing environment calls for increasingly nuanced means of measuring demand. Complementing traditional crime counts, the recent development of crime harm indices

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The Importance of Importance Sampling

Autor: Wim Bernasco, Oleg N. Medvedev, Devon L. L. Polaschek, Sophie Curtis-Ham

Publikováno v: Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 38(4), 1003-1031. Springer New York
Curtis-Ham, S, Bernasco, W, Medvedev, O N & Polaschek, D L L 2022, ' The Importance of Importance Sampling : Exploring Methods of Sampling from Alternatives in Discrete Choice Models of Crime Location Choice ', Journal of Quantitative Criminology, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 1003-1031 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-021-09526-5

Objectives: The burgeoning field of individual level crime location choice research has required increasingly large datasets to model complex relationships between the attributes of potential crime locations and offenders’ choices. This study tests

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-021-09526-5

The Mongrel Mob or Head Hunters? The association between neighbourhood-level factors on different types of gang membership in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Autor: Gregory D Breetzke, Sophie Curtis-Ham, Jarrod Gilbert, Che Tibby

Publikováno v: Journal of Criminology. 55:433-450

Previous research has shown that gang members typically emerge from more socially disorganised neighbourhoods. What is less known however is whether members of different types of gangs emerge from the same types of neighbourhoods. In this study, we u

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https://doi.org/10.1177/26338076221121402

A National Examination of the Spatial Extent and Similarity of Offenders’ Activity Spaces Using Police Data

Autor: Sophie Curtis-Ham, Wim Bernasco, Oleg N. Medvedev, Devon L. L. Polaschek

Publikováno v: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Vol 10, Iss 2, p 47 (2021)

It is well established that offenders’ routine activity locations (nodes) shape their crime locations, but research examining the geography of offenders’ routine activity spaces has to date largely been limited to a few core nodes such as homes a

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Gang Membership and Gang Crime in New Zealand: A National Study Identifying Spatial Risk Factors

Autor: Sophie Curtis-Ham, Gregory Dennis Breetzke, Che Tibby, Jarrod Gilbert

Publikováno v: Criminal Justice and Behavior. 49:1154-1172

In this exploratory study, we identify the spatial risk factors associated with gang membership and gang crime in New Zealand using social disorganization as a theoretical framework. Gang membership data from the Gang Intelligence Center and gang cri

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https://doi.org/10.1177/00938548211034200