Understanding crime and place : a methods handbook / edited by Elizabeth R. Groff and Cory P. Haberman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Groff, Elizabeth (Elizabeth R.), editor.

Haberman, Cory P., 1985- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology--Research--Statistical methods.

Criminology.

Crime prevention--Research--Statistical methods.

Crime prevention.

Criminal statistics--Research.

Criminal statistics.

Crime--Environmental aspects.

Crime.

Crime prevention--Research.

Criminology--Research.

Physical Description:

xv, 423 pages illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"This book instructs students and scholars in foundational methods, measurements, theories, and standard practices in the study of preventing and predicting crime through geographies and place-based research methodologies. The chapters by leading experts include exercises and walkthroughs"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Fundamental Concepts and Data

1. Major Conceptual Issues in Crime and Place Research

1.1. Theory and Research Questions in the Literature / Elizabeth R. Groff

1.2. Crime, Place, and Race: A Dialogue Furthering a Race Aware Program of Useful Research / John E. Eck

2. Foundational Spatial Concepts

2.1. Points versus Areal Units / Elizabeth R. Groff

2.2. Vector and Raster Data Jeffrey E. Clutter

2.3. Coordinate Systems, Projections, and Geocoding / David Mazeika

2.4. Euclidean, Manhattan, and Network Distances / Andrew Newton

3. Spatial Units of Analysis

3.1. Neighborhoods / Graham C. Ousey

3.2. Census Units / Graham C. Ousey

3.3. Micro Units / Cory P. Haberman

4. Data at the Microgeographic Level

4.1. Official Police Data / Matthew P. J. Ashby

4.2. EMS Data Julie Hibdon

4.3. Land Use and Facilities / Kathryn Wuschke

4.4. Street Networks / Toby Davies

4.5. Census Data: Gathering Data and Measures / Bradley J. O'Guinn

4.6. Open Data for Crime and Place Research: A Practical Guide in R / Reka Solymosi

4.7. Using Crowdsourced Data to Study Crime and Place / Reka Solymosi

4.8. Social Media

-Twitter Data / Dan Birks

4.9. Victimization Surveys: Traditional and Innovative Approaches / Douglas J. Wiebe

4.10. Self-Report Data and the Study of Crime and Place: An Organizational Framework for Operationalization and Measurement of Proximal Factors / Caterina G. Roman

4.11. Primary Survey Data Collection at the Microgeographic Level / David Weisburd

4.12. On-Site Assessments for Meso- and Microscale Community Criminology / Ralph B. Taylor

4.13. Systematic Social Observation of Video Footage / Ajima Olaghere

pt. II Techniques for Identifying and Explaining Crime Patterns

5. Analyzing Spatial Point Patterns

5.1. Understanding the Importance of Repeat Victimization James Hunter and Ken Pease

5.2. Near-Repeat Victimization / Shane D. Johnson

5.3. Distance-Based Point Pattern Tests: Ripley's K-Function and Nearest-Neighbor Analysis / Hannah Steinman

5.4. Point Pattern Tests: Andresen's Spatial Point Pattern Test / Martin A. Andresen

5.5. Kernel Density Estimation / Jillian Shafer Desmond

6. Area Pattern Tests

6.1. Modeling Spatial Autocorrelation / Ned Levine

7. Measuring Concentration

7.1. Measures of Crime Concentration for Places and Other Units / John E. Eck

8. Regression Models

8.1. Nonspatial and Spatial Linear Regression / Stijn Ruiter

8.2. Count Regression Modeling? Ned Levine and Dominique Lord

8.3. Using Geographically Weighted Regression to Explore Spatial Crime Patterns / Meagan Cahill

8.4. Mixed (a.k.a. Multilevel) Models / Ralph B. Taylor

8.5. Group-Based Trajectory Analysis / Sue-Ming Yang

9. Measuring Interaction Potential

9.1. Mobility Triangles / Stefano Caneppele

9.2. Crime Travel Demand Modeling / Ned Levine

9.3. Discrete Spatial Choice Models / Wim Bernasco

10. Other Analysis Techniques

10.1. Conjunctive Analysis of Case Configurations / Miriam Esteve

10.2. Crime Scripting / Hashem Dehghanniri

10.3. Agent-Based Simulation Models / Nick Malleson

10.4. Small Area Estimation for Crime Analysis / David Buil-Gil

10.5. Incorporating Time into Studying Crime and Place / Matthew P. J. Ashby

10.6. Aoristic Crime Analysis / Jerry H. Ratcliffe

10.7. Social Distance / Brian Lockwood

pt. III Using Crime and Place Research to Inform Policy

11. Issues Using Place-Based Experimental Evaluations

11.1. Experiments / Georgia Hassall

12. Considerations for Measuring Displacement in Place-Based Studies

12.1. Measuring Displacement / Kate Bowers

12.2. Inverse Displacement Quotient / Evan T. Sorg

13. Defining Units for Place-Based Research

13.1. Defining Hot Spot Areas for Rigorous Place-Based Policing Evaluations / Brandon S. Turchan

13.2. Creating Viewsheds to Evaluate the Effect of CCTV Camera Systems / Brandon C. Welsh

13.3. Evaluating an Acoustic Gunshot Detection System in Cincinnati / Dennis Mares.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Understanding crime and place

ISBN:

9781439920664

1439920664

9781439920671

1439920672

OCLC:

1313386527

Publisher Number:

99993273192