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Victimization and Its Consequences for Well-Being: A Between- and Within-Person Analysis
ConclusionThe findings indicate that violent victimization has palpable detrimental effects on security perceptions, trust and neighborhood satisfaction —but not on emotional well-being and life satisfaction—and that individuals largely recover from the victimization within 18 months. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - January 5, 2020 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Assessing the Spatial Concentration of Urban Crime: An Insight from Nigeria
ConclusionThe current study extends previous research in a number of ways. It shows that the law of crime concentration at place applies in a very different context to most previous work. Unlike previous studies, we use primary data collected specifically to test the law, avoiding problems associated with the dark figure of crime. Moreover, the findings persist after accounting for crime opportunity. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - January 5, 2020 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Crime Generators in Context: Examining ‘Place in Neighborhood’ Propositions
ConclusionsParticular place types do not generate crime similarly across varying neighborhood contexts. Rather, the criminogenic effects of micro-places appear to be exacerbated in neighborhoods with extensive criminal opportunity and tempered in neighborhoods with less criminal opportunity. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - January 2, 2020 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Religion in Civil Society: The Influence of Black Religious Ecology on Crime in the South
ConclusionsNet of total religious adherence, the Black Church has a uniquely protective effect against crime in the most disadvantaged southern communities. Findings were largely consistent with ecological theories related to social capital, social organization, and collective efficacy. They also highlight limits to the moral communities thesis. Results suggest that more scholarship should examine racialized law enforcement practices in high-income counties. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - December 23, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Plea Bargaining and the Miscarriage of Justice
ConclusionsThe results indicate that, on average, factually innocent defendants in Israel during this period took plea bargains instead of going to trial. This contradicts “innocence effect” theory, which predicts that factually innocent defendants, on average, reject plea bargains. Our findings are important for research on shadow trial theory, since they show that selection into plea bargains cannot be ignored when inferring counterfactual trial outcomes for ple a bargainers. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - December 12, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Don ’t Shoot! The Impact of Historical African American Protest on Police Killings of Civilians
ConclusionsThe results clearly show that historical protest resulted in an increase in civilian deaths by legal intervention regardless of race in the short-run and a seemingly permanent increase in killings of non-white over the medium-to-long run. These results paint a depressing picture in which uprisings represent a structural change in police-civilian relations, adversely affecting white civilians in the short-run and non-white civilians in the short and long-run. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - December 11, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Drug Dealing and Gun Carrying Go Hand in Hand: Examining How Juvenile Offenders ’ Gun Carrying Changes Before and After Drug Dealing Spells Across 84 Months
ConclusionsThese results suggest that designing and implementing programs to prevent the initiation of drug dealing and decrease involvement in drug dealing may help to substantially reduce illegal gun carrying and firearm violence among delinquent males. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - December 5, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

The Influence of Stadia and the Built Environment on the Spatial Distribution of Crime
ConclusionsOur findings provide further support for ecological theories of crime and how factors that influence the likely convergence of people in urban spaces affect levels of crime. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - December 4, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

A Field-Wide Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Putative Risk and Protective Factors for Radicalization Outcomes
ConclusionsThe most commonly researched factors, sociodemographic factors, have exceptionally small effects, even when effect sizes are derived from bivariate relationships. The finding regarding the effects of radical attitudes on intentions and actions provide empirical support for existing theoretical frameworks. The consistency among the clustering of familiar criminogenic factors within the rank-order could have implications for the development of a more evidence based approach to risk assessment and counter violent extremism policies. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - December 2, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Integrating the Literature on Police Use of Deadly Force and Police Lethal Victimization: How Does Place Impact Fatal Police –Citizen Encounters?
ConclusionsA more complete understanding of fatal police –citizen encounters requires considering police use of lethal force and police lethal victimization concurrently in their broader social contexts. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - November 29, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Mobile Phones and Crime: The Protective Effect of Mobile Network Infrastructures
ConclusionsThis study highlights the necessity of extending the study of crime with a technological dimension of other emerging technologies (e.g., augmented reality and location-based mobile games) on crime. Further, it supports the notion that (1) the maintenance of mobile network infrastructures might be a matter of public interest; and (2) in some cases, mobile phones can be a useful and cost-effective crime reduction measure which is worth to be considered in the process of extending the government's catalog of crime countermeasures. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - November 26, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Are Relational Inferences from Crowdsourced and Opt-in Samples Generalizable? Comparing Criminal Justice Attitudes in the GSS and Five Online Samples
ConclusionsOnline non-probability samples appear useful for estimating the direction but not the magnitude of relationships between variables, at least absent effective model-based adjustments. However, adjusting only for demographics, either through weighting or statistical control, is insufficient. We recommend that researchers conduct both a provisional generalizability check and a model-specification test before using these samples to make relational inferences. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - November 12, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Mapping Attitudes Towards the Police at Micro Places
ConclusionsAsking survey respondents to provide the nearest intersection to where they live is a simple approach to mapping attitudes towards police at micro places. This approach provides advantages beyond those of using traditional neighborhood boundaries. Specifically, it provides more precise locations police may target interventions, as well as illuminates an important predictor (i.e., nearby violent crimes) of policing attitudes. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - October 24, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Measuring the Direct and Spillover Effects of Body Worn Cameras on the Civility of Police –Citizen Encounters and Police Work Activities
ConclusionsThe results of this study suggest that a limited BWC adoption may generate spillover deterrent impacts as officers and citizens perceive an increased threat that inappropriate and illegal behaviors will be captured on video even when BWCs are not actually present during an encounter. Partial BWC implementation seems like a cost-effective alternative to full implementation. However, police executives and policy makers need to think carefully about possible negative externalities generated by uneven BWC coverage. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - October 18, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Situational Correlates of Adolescent Substance Use: An Improved Test of the Routine Activity Theory of Deviant Behavior
ConclusionsSupporting the routine activity theory of deviance, we conclude that unstructured activity, peer presence and absence of authority figures are situational factors that facilitate substance use. In contrast to what the theory proposes, and relevant for parents and professionals, these factors function independently and need not all be present simultaneously for deviant behavior to occur. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - October 16, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research