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Familial Clustering of Trends in Aggression
ConclusionsWe confirm earlier findings of a decline in aggression over the past decades. Not all individuals follow the downward trend over time for aggression to the same extent. Trends over time cluster within families, demonstrating that family factors are not only important to explain variation in aggression levels, but also in understanding differences between individuals in time trends. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - August 11, 2021 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

The Importance of Importance Sampling: Exploring Methods of Sampling from Alternatives in Discrete Choice Models of Crime Location Choice
ConclusionsImportance sampling from alternatives is a relatively simple and effective method that enables future studies to use larger datasets (e.g., with more variables, wider study areas, or more granular spatial or spatio-temporal units) to yield greater insights into crime location choice. By examining non-residential burglary and sexual offenses, in New Zealand, the substantive results represent a novel contribution to the growing literature on offenders ’ spatial decision making. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - July 31, 2021 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Statistical Power and Search Intensity Bias in Hit Rates Tests of Discrimination
ConclusionsFor the presentation of multiple hit rates tests, statistical power should be reported withp-values. Theoretical bounds on search intensity bias are wide, and the bias can persist for any sample size. Hit rates tests should therefore be interpreted with caution when data contain no indicator of search intensity. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - July 20, 2021 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Understanding Changes in Violent Extremist Attitudes During the Transition to Early Adulthood
ConclusionsFor young people in Z ürich, the transition to early adulthood was characterized by increases in psychosocial maturity, more prosocial peers, and less deviant behavior, which in turn was associated with lower support for violent extremism. Existing research on effective interventions for criminal desistance and disengag ement from gangs may therefore be fruitful avenues for developing programs aimed at reducing support for violent extremism and fostering deradicalization. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - July 8, 2021 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Restricting Arranged Marriage Opportunities for Danish Minority Youth: Implications for Criminal Convictions
ConclusionCriminologists discuss whether social institutions, such as marriage, influence desistance from crime or whether the association is driven by unobserved heterogeneity. Several empirical strategies have been proposed to settle the discussion. Our contribution to this line of research is an alternative empirical strategy that relies on a natural experiment. Our study focuses only on one specific type of marriage in one context and focuses on criminal convictions rather than behavior per se —which are important limitations. Still, results uniformly reject the hypothesis that the marriages in our study influenced c...
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - July 7, 2021 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Street Light Outages, Public Safety and Crime Attraction
ConclusionsDespite strong environmental and social characteristics that tend to tie crime to place, we observe that street light outages are sufficiently salient to disrupt longstanding patterns. While the impact of localized street light outages can reverberate throughout a community, the findings imply that improvements in lighting can be defeated by the displacement of crime to adjacent spaces and therefore do not necessarily suggest that localized investments in municipal street lighting will yield a large public safety dividend. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - July 6, 2021 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Impulsivity or Discounting? Evaluating the Influence of Individual Differences in Temporal Orientation on Offending
ConclusionsFindings support Nagin and Pogarsky ’s general framework of inter-temporal choice but also encourage scholars to focus more closely on the diverse rationales for temporal-orientation. Further, consideration of these mechanisms within a developmental perspective is necessary. Implications for theory and future research are discussed. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - June 25, 2021 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Moral Rules, Self-Control, and School Context: Additional Evidence on Situational Action Theory from 28 Countries
ConclusionsThe results of the study point to the cultural generalizability of SAT but warrant further investigation as some differences in the findings across clusters exist. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - June 25, 2021 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Non-random Study Attrition: Assessing Correction Techniques and the Magnitude of Bias in a Longitudinal Study of Reentry from Prison
ConclusionsIt is vital that researchers examine attrition-based selection bias and recognize the implications it has on their data when generating evidence of theoretical, policy, or practical significance. We outline best practices for examining the magnitude of attrition and analyzing longitudinal data affected by sample selection. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - May 19, 2021 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Advances in Place-Based Methods: Editors ’ Introduction
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Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - May 18, 2021 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Do Police Body-Worn Cameras Reduce Citizen Fatalities? Results of a Country-Wide Natural Experiment
ConclusionsThe research finds some evidence for BWC effects on citizen fatalities. However, there are important validity threats to this conclusion. These include the possibility that BWC  acquisition serves as a marker for other policy changes focused on BWC-acquiring agencies in the 2013/14 to 2015/16 period and beyond. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - May 6, 2021 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Equity in the Police Districting Problem: Balancing Territorial and Racial Fairness in Patrolling Operations
ConclusionsThe results show that the model successfully provides a quantitative evaluation of the trade-off between the criteria and is capable of defining patrolling configurations that are efficient in terms of both racial and territorial fairness. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - May 5, 2021 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Location Choice of Snatching Offenders in Chennai City
ConclusionsBy replicating in an Indian context previously published crime location choice findings, our findings support the generality of crime pattern theory. We discuss limitations and make suggestions for future investigations. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - May 4, 2021 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Correction to: The Network of Neighborhoods and Geographic Space: Implications for Joblessness While on Parole
A correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-021-09515-8 (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - April 28, 2021 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

How Cohorts Changed Crime Rates, 1980 –2016
ConclusionsPolicies aimed at reducing delinquency among young children may be more effective in the long run than current policies aimed at incapacitation, deterrence, and opportunity reduction. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - April 22, 2021 Category: Criminology Source Type: research