...) to understand the relationship between crime indicators and police production using spatial regression models. We consider a combination of Kitchenham and Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocols as a methodological strategy in five bibliographic databases...

...Eran Itskovich; Or Tal Baron; Roni Factor; Simon Perry Purpose Previous research has shown that terror attacks affect a variety of outcomes. However, one outcome that has remained relatively neglected is crime. In the current study we examine the immediate effect of terrorism on crime, and discuss...

...Dennis Wesselbaum Purpose Extensive literature studies the causes of crime and crime reporting behaviour. In contrast, there is hardly any scholarship on delays in reporting a crime and what drives them. Understanding delays in reporting crimes is important for various reasons, for example...

...Marilyn Ee; Yan Zhang Purpose The purpose of this exploratory study is to expand on a previously developed crime harm index – the California Crime Harm Index (CA-CHI) – by discussing the development of the CA-CHI and presenting a comparison of the distribution of crime count and harm in a large...

...Joon Tag Cho Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore factors affecting police performance, such as violent crime, fear of crime and satisfaction with police, using objectively measured policing and neighborhood characteristics. Design/methodology/approach This study combined four data...

... intentions increased with the seriousness of the incident for both traditional crime and cybercrime. However, reporting intentions were generally slightly higher for incidents that occurred in the physical world, as opposed to online. Likewise, beliefs that police could identify and arrest and offender were...

... of all criminal events are concentrated in about 3 percent of places commonly referred to as “hotspots” of crime, similar proportions of harm concentrate in only 1 percent of places. These are “harmspots.” Identifying that harm is a more concentrated issue suggests wide policy and research implications...

...Scott M. Mourtgos; Richard A. Wise; Thomas Petros Purpose Past research indicates that increasing police arrests deters crime. However, little research exists on how restricting police arrests affects crime. The purpose of this paper is to test whether restrictions on police authority to arrest...

...Erik Alda Purpose – In almost all modern societies, police forces are at the forefront of ongoing activities to reduce and prevent crime. Both in practice and in popular belief, police forces are the visible presence for maintaining security and safety to citizens in municipalities, towns...

...Sunghoon Roh; Dae‐Hoon Kwak; Eunyoung Kim Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the complex constellation of underlying factors between community policing and fear of crime by embracing various exogenous variables identified through accumulated empirical research. Another important...

...Zhivan Alach Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a better method for prioritising organised criminal groups, utilising the existing literature on organised crime and risk assessment. Design/methodology/approach The study began with an existing prioritisation model...

...‐type substances (ATS) series were found to be stationary for the full duration of the data. ARIMA models for this class of drug were therefore constructed on the raw series. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Australia Crime Police Arrest Drugs Hospitals Emergency...

... to several areas on a rotation basis. The purpose of this paper is to examine policing activities in hot spots to determine if the various types of crimes were affected when deployment was applied on a rotation basis. Design/methodology/approach This study uses data from the Dallas Police Department...

...Ling Ren; Jihong “Solomon” Zhao; Nicholas P. Lovrich; Michael J. Gaffney Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify the principal determinants associated with becoming a volunteer in crime prevention programs. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from citizen surveys...

... of solving civil and criminal disputes. Concludes that it is too early to predict whether a new viable legal order will emerge in the future, particularly when warlords control significant regions beyond the Karzai‐administered city of Kabul. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Law Crime Police Religion...

... department. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Police Firearms Predictive validity Multivariate analysis Violence Crime Much of the controversy associated with deadly force centers on whether officers use it inappropriately and, if so, whether they are prone to do so based on personal attributes...

... or offending, then it would behoove school administrators to utilize their financial resources for counseling, student‐faculty crime prevention programs or delinquency awareness programs. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Schools Police Attitudes Crime School violence is a serious problem...

...Patrick C. Jobes This paper analyses the complex relationship between rural social structure and law enforcement. It examines perceptions regarding effective policing and levels of local crime among a selected sample of police officers in rural New South Wales, Australia. Rural officers were...

... unclear on day seven. This has implications for law enforcement and forensic science in that time may become a critical variable in criminal investigations requiring the lifting of latent fingerprints of children. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Police Children Crime In 1995, while...

... environment. I found this point to be especially interesting in light of the fact that one‐third of computer science degrees in the USA are generally earned by women, and there have been a significant number of incidents where women were arrested and charged with hacker related crime. Taylor’s interviews...