Crime Rates in a Pandemic: the Largest Criminological Experiment in History
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DOI: 10.1007/s12103-020-09546-0
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has impacted the world in ways not seen in generations. Initial evidence suggests one of the effects is crime rates, which appear to have fallen drastically in many communities around… read more here.
Keywords: largest criminological; experiment; crime rates; pandemic largest ... See more keywords
Measuring small-area violent crime: A comparison of observed vs model-estimated crime rates and preterm birth.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2020.11.008
Abstract: PURPOSE Research examining the association between crime and health outcomes has been hampered by a lack of reliable small-area (e.g. census tract or census block-group) crime data. Our objective is to assess the accuracy of… read more here.
Keywords: preterm birth; area; crime rates; estimated crime ... See more keywords
There will be blood: Crime rates in shale-rich U.S. counties
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2016.12.004
Abstract: Over the past decade, the production of shale oil and gas significantly increased in the United States. This paper uniquely examines how this energy boom has affected regional crime rates throughout the United States. There… read more here.
Keywords: rich counties; crime rates; blood crime; shale rich ... See more keywords
A Longitudinal Examination of Building Demolitions on Neighbourhood Crime Rates
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DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azaa077
Abstract: Criminological research shows that vacant and dilapidated buildings contribute to higher neighbourhood crime rates. Therefore, the implication is that by physically removing these buildings from a neighbourhood, there will subsequently be a reduction in crime… read more here.
Keywords: crime rates; crime; neighbourhood crime; building demolitions ... See more keywords
Racial Disparities in Police Use of Deadly Force Against Unarmed Individuals Persist After Appropriately Benchmarking Shooting Data on Violent Crime Rates
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DOI: 10.1177/1948550620916071
Abstract: Cesario et al. argue that benchmarking the relative counts of killings by police on relative crime rates, rather than relative population sizes, generates a measure of racial disparity in the use of lethal force that… read more here.
Keywords: methodology; racial disparities; disparities police; crime rates ... See more keywords