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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Considerations for Developing Predictive Spatial Models of Crime and New Methods for Measuring Their Accuracy

Autor: Chaitanya Joshi, Sophie Curtis-Ham, Clayton D’Ath, Deane Searle

Publikováno v: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Vol 10, Iss 9, p 597 (2021)

A literature review of the important trends in predictive crime modeling and the existing measures of accuracy was undertaken. It highlighted the need for a robust, comprehensive and independent evaluation and the need to include complementary measur

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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

Relationships Between Offenders’ Crime Locations and Different Prior Activity Locations as Recorded in Police Data

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

Publikováno v: Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 38(1), 172-185. Springer Verlag
Curtis-Ham, S, Bernasco, W, Medvedev, O N & Polaschek, D L L 2023, ' Relationships Between Offenders’ Crime Locations and Different Prior Activity Locations as Recorded in Police Data ', Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 172-185 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11896-022-09540-8

Understanding the relationships between individual offenders’ crime locations and their prior activity locations is important to enable individual level predictions to support crime prevention and investigation strategies. This study examined a wid

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https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/3551b178-ebb4-484d-8980-5e461c4bba9c

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