We assess if asking victims about the places where crimes happen leads to estimates of “crime in place” with better measurement properties. analyze data from Barcelona Victimization Survey (2015–2020) aggregated 73 neighborhoods using longitudinal quasi-simplex models and criterion validity estimate quality four types survey-based measures crime. The distribution offense location estimates, as ...

money laundering is a silent crime which crosses international boundaries. modern technology has led to new avenues to disguise the proceeds of crime. the advent of electronic money has meant that tracing the transfer of possibly illicit funds is an extremely difficult if not impossible task. therefore there is a need to take consistent measures against money laundering throughout the world esp...

Ethnographic research is particularly well suited to investigate emergent phenomena and to access and describe populations and social environments which are obscured from normal observation. Ongoing ethnographic research on Manhattan's Lower East Side combines direct observation and qualitative interviews to describe the wide variety of local retail drug markets, the social contexts in which th...

MICHAEL BACON: A Spatial Statistics Examination of Changes in Violent Crime Patterns Following a Housing Redevelopment Project The HOPE VI public housing redevelopment program has funded the demolition of many distressed public housing units across the United States, along with the construction of new developments which incorporate public housing with market-rate housing. Among the primary goal...

CONTEXT An increasing body of research has linked the geographic distribution of lead with various indicators of criminal and antisocial behavior. OBJECTIVE The current study, using data from an ongoing project related to lead exposure in St. Louis City, MO, analyzed the association between aggregate blood lead levels and specific indicators violent crime within the city. DESIGN Ecological ...

Patients visit their doctors with the reasonable expectation that the recommended treatment is appropriate and, even if they do not know the exact terminology, that the doctor’s choice of treatment is ‘‘evidenced-based.’’ Those charged with serious crimes, such as murder, might share similar expectations about the evidence presented against them, but they would frequently be mistaken, particula...

The study of rural crime has the potential to make important contributions to crime policy, criminological theory, and research methods in criminology. Although most places in America remain rural, researchers have paid insufficient attention to rural crime and have not utilized the wide variations among rural areas as natural laboratories for research. This chapter outlines what is known about...

Fear of crime affects far more people in the United States than crime itself, and there are sound reasons for treating crime and fear of crime as distinct social problems. After assessing the state of knowledge on fear, this chapter considers whether public fear of crime can and ought to be controlled, and the moral and practical implications of doing so. The discussion draws on the literatures...

Fluctuation scaling relationships have been observed in a wide range of processes ranging from internet router traffic to measles cases. Taylor's law is one such scaling relationship and has been widely applied in ecology to understand communities including trees, birds, human populations, and insects. We show that monthly crime reports in the UK show complex fluctuation scaling which can be ap...