The Promise and Challenge of Activity-Based Crime Rates: a Comparison of the USA, Canada, and Australia

Autor:	Adam D. Vaughan, Ashley N. Hewitt, Timothy C. Hart, Marcus Felson
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	021110 strategic defence & security studies education.field_of_study Matching (statistics) Denominator data 05 social sciences Population 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology Crime rate 050501 criminology Econometrics education Law 0505 law
Zdroj:	European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research. 27:397-413
ISSN:	1572-9869 0928-1371
Popis:	Alternatives to population-based crime rates were first introduced in 1965. Activity-based crime rates derive numerator data from activity-specific crime events, then match these to time spent in the same activities. Activity-based rates can produce a vastly different picture of risk, not captured by population-based rates. Given that numerator and denominator data may be drawn from different sources using different methods, these rates can create a matching challenge. Yet, dramatic results justify that effort. This paper offers new activity-based crime rate calculations for Canada and Australia, then relates these to prior estimates in the USA. Despite data variations among the three nations, activity-based crime rates give us an overall understanding of crime risk not captured by population-based rates.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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