Understanding Crime Trends

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309140390
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Crime Trends written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changes over time in the levels and patterns of crime have significant consequences that affect not only the criminal justice system but also other critical policy sectors. Yet compared with such areas as health status, housing, and employment, the nation lacks timely information and comprehensive research on crime trends. Descriptive information and explanatory research on crime trends across the nation that are not only accurate, but also timely, are pressing needs in the nation's crime-control efforts. In April 2007, the National Research Council held a two-day workshop to address key substantive and methodological issues underlying the study of crime trends and to lay the groundwork for a proposed multiyear NRC panel study of these issues. Six papers were commissioned from leading researchers and discussed at the workshop by experts in sociology, criminology, law, economics, and statistics. The authors revised their papers based on the discussants' comments, and the papers were then reviewed again externally. The six final workshop papers are the basis of this volume, which represents some of the most serious thinking and research on crime trends currently available.

Author : Richard Rosenfeld
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000065146
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding New York’s Crime Drop written by Richard Rosenfeld and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores New York City’s historic crime drop over the past quarter of a century. New York City’s dramatic crime decline is a real brainteaser: no one predicted it and, as of yet, no one has explained it, at least to the satisfaction of most social scientists who study crime trends. Three strategic lessons emerge from the contributions to this volume on New York’s crime drop. It is suggested that future research should: • go wide by putting New York in comparative context, nationally and internationally; • go long by putting New York’s recent experience in historical context; • develop a strong ground game by investigating New York’s crime drop across multiple spatial units, down to the street segment. The contributors to Understanding New York’s Crime Drop aim to provoke expanded and sustained attention to crime trends in New York and elsewhere. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal, Justice Quarterly.

Author : Albert D. Biderman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461229863
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Crime Incidence Statistics written by Albert D. Biderman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prominence achieved by the novel measure of "households touched by crime" when it was introduced into the National Crime Survey (NCS) in 1981 was responsible for renewed attention to comparisons between the crime rates reported by the NCS and the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR). The new NCS measure suggested that crime was declining; this at a time of widespread awareness that the UCR Index was at all-time highs. Com parisons of the NCS and UCR in The New York Times (1981) and the Washington Post (1981) had the unfortunate consequence of reviving old and usually ill-informed arguments about which is the "better" measure of "trends in crime. " More recent discrepant changes of the two measures in 1986 and 1987 rekindled the debate, although with somewhat diminished stridency. The efforts of criminological statisticians to develop an appreciation for the two statistical systems as quite different but complementary measures have suffered a setback in these debates, but an opportunity is also afforded to improve the understanding of crime statistics by officials, the media, and the public. The need remains for the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) , the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the research community to explain in quantitative terms the ways in which the two systems attend to different, albeit overlapping, aspects of the crime problem.

Author : David Weisburd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199709106
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Criminology of Place written by David Weisburd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of crime has focused primarily on why particular people commit crime or why specific communities have higher crime levels than others. In The Criminology of Place, David Weisburd, Elizabeth Groff, and Sue-Ming Yang present a new and different way of looking at the crime problem by examining why specific streets in a city have specific crime trends over time. Based on a 16-year longitudinal study of crime in Seattle, Washington, the book focuses our attention on small units of geographic analysis-micro communities, defined as street segments. Half of all Seattle crime each year occurs on just 5-6 percent of the city's street segments, yet these crime hot spots are not concentrated in a single neighborhood and street by street variability is significant. Weisburd, Groff, and Yang set out to explain why. The Criminology of Place shows how much essential information about crime is inevitably lost when we focus on larger units like neighborhoods or communities. Reorienting the study of crime by focusing on small units of geography, the authors identify a large group of possible crime risk and protective factors for street segments and an array of interventions that could be implemented to address them. The Criminology of Place is a groundbreaking book that radically alters traditional thinking about the crime problem and what we should do about it.

Author : James P. Lynch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139462628
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Crime Statistics written by James P. Lynch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-04 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Understanding Crime Statistics, Lynch and Addington draw on the work of leading experts on U.S. crime statistics to provide much-needed research on appropriate use of this data. Specifically, the contributors explore the issues surrounding divergence in the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which have been the two major indicators of the level and of the change in level of crime in the United States for the past 30 years. This book examines recent changes in the UCR and the NCVS and assesses the effect these have had on divergence. By focusing on divergence, the authors encourage readers to think about how these data systems filter the reality of crime. Understanding Crime Statistics builds on this discussion of divergence to explain how the two data systems can be used as they were intended - in complementary rather than competitive ways.

Author : Clive Coleman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780335195183
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Crime Data written by Clive Coleman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding crime data begins by locating the study and use of crime data within the theoretical and historical development of criminology, a subject that has long been haunted by the dark figure of hidden crime and offenders. Readers are guided through the development, limitations and uses of the three main sources of numerical crime data, and selected key issues in the interpretation of crime data are examined. The characteristics of offenders are discussed with reference to the key variables of age, sex, race and class, and the difficulties involved in interpreting long- and short-term trends in the crime rate are highlighted. The authors assess what crime data can tell us about the relationships between crime and unemployment, and they conclude the book with their personal evaluation and prognosis of the field.

Author : Spencer Chainey
Publisher : Esri Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589485846
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Crime written by Spencer Chainey and published by Esri Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Crime: Analyzing the Geography of Crime is the principal book for fully explaining how to use both theory and technique to study the geographic analysis of crime.

Author : Joseph F. Sheley
Publisher : Thomson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Crime written by Joseph F. Sheley and published by Thomson. This book was released on 1979 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. Keith Bottomley
Publisher : Gower Publishing Company, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Crime Rates written by A. Keith Bottomley and published by Gower Publishing Company, Limited. This book was released on 1981 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Robert Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780642158819
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Crime Trends in Australia written by John Robert Walker and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: