Crime trends often vary across different levels of population density. In the United States, for instance, the variance among highly non-metropolitan areas has been shown to be equal to or greater than that among metropolitan areas in terms of crime rates and contextual variables (Wells and Weish...
intervening variable that explained persistent offending behaviors regardless of race or ethnicity. Bersani et al. (2014) concluded that it is important to study how adolescent immigrants acculturate into a community, particularly if it has high crime rates and other factors associated with social ...
The second shift has occurred in recent years, as there has been growing recognition of the limitations of combating environmental crime through broadening the criminal scope and increasing imprisonment rates (Jiang and Chen, 2023). In response, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) and the ...
As shown by this section, there are several automated techniques that can be used to detect and ban offending users at scale. A possible open issue is the transfer of data and techniques from one established crime to a novel crime. In this way, security researchers will not have a lag ...
Long-Term Trends in UCR Violent Crime Rates: Violent Offending, Police Efficiency, and/or Lethality?Carlson, Susan M
Writing such as Bayley's Forces of Order, Johnson's The Japanese Way of Justice, Hill's The Japanese Mafia, and Miyazawa's Policing in Japan have reached a worldwide readership, as has Yokoyama's work on a variety of topics from sex-offending to juvenile justice to elderly offenders. A ...
it is one of the first studies to estimate the effect of LGBTQ+ policies and laws on crime in general and arrest rates in particular. With this aim in mind, our analysis is built on previous studies looking at victimization and incarceration rates among sexual and gender minorities (Flores et...
(2015). Enclaves of opportunity or ‘ghettos of last resort?’ Assessing the effects of immigrant segregation on violent crime rates. Social Science Research, 52, 1–17. Article Google Scholar Feldmeyer, B., & Steffensmeier, D. (2009). Immigration effects on homicide offending for total and...
The group-based trajectory model derived three latent trajectory groups from the sample that exhibited distinctive demographic characteristics and pre-prison offending trajectories. Due to significant variation atthe state-level, a multilevel logit model was used to model the probability of receiving ...
Her Ph.D. investigated the psychological and social risk factors associated with gang membership, group offending and desistance from crime. She was a recipient of a Frederick Milton Thrasher Award in 2017 for superior accomplishments in gang research and in 2020 for superior accomplishments in gang...