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“Location, Location, Location”: Effects of Neighborhood and House Attributes on Burglars’ Target Selection
ConclusionsBoth area-level and target-level attributes are found to affect burglars ’ target choices. Our results offer support for theoretical accounts of burglary target selection that characterize it as being informed both by attributes of individual properties and attributes of the environment as well as combinations thereof. This spatial decision-making model implies that en vironmental information at multiple and increasingly finer scales of spatial resolution informs crime site selection. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - October 10, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Correction to: The Effect of Police Body-Worn Cameras on Use of Force and Citizens ’ Complaints Against the Police: A Randomized Controlled Trial
We provide the corrected results table below. Note that this correction does not alter the findings from the analysis, nor the interpretation of results. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - September 16, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Maternal Parenting Stress Following Paternal or Close Family Incarceration: Bayesian Model-Based Profiling Using the HILDA Longitudinal Survey
ConclusionsNeither PI nor CFI helped profile mothers. Thus, research should examine wider family incarceration effects on children and caregivers. Prior adversity, wellbeing and family demographics contributed to the cluster profiles. Parenting stress is heterogeneous and improved methods are needed to disentangle the effects of incarceration from other contextual, recent and cumulative adverse events in people ’s lives. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - September 9, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

The Effect of Police Use of Lethal Force on Murder Levels in American Cities Before and After Ferguson
ConclusionsChanges in policing following the events of Ferguson had a generally positive but uneven effect. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - August 29, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Pathways: Examining Street Network Configurations, Structural Characteristics and Spatial Crime Patterns in Street Segments
ConclusionsThe current study highlights that there is an important relationship of the physical environment in terms of the street network configuration and crime in street segments. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - August 29, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

A Comprehensive Application of Rational Choice Theory: How Costs Imposed by, and Benefits Derived from, the U.S. Federal Government Affect Incidents Perpetrated by the Radical Eco-Movement
ConclusionsTheorizing as to why such nuanced findings were discovered, we conclude that the decision-making process of the radical eco-movement is more complex than originally anticipated. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - August 29, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Socially Demoralizing Environments and the Development of the Street Code from Childhood to Emerging Adulthood
ConclusionThe street code is malleable from childhood through emerging adulthood. Commitment to the street code is not a stable product of socialization or early childhood social  environmental exposures. The degree to which individuals embrace the code is largely a function of their current social environment. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - August 25, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Dynamic Patterns of Terrorist Networks: Efficiency and Security in the Evolution of Eleven Islamic Extremist Attack Networks
ConclusionsOur findings have the potential to inform counterterrorism efforts by suggesting which actors in the network make the most influential targets for law enforcement. We discuss how these strategies should vary as extremist networks evolve over time. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - August 21, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Industry Self-regulation Under Government Intervention
ConclusionsThese findings go in line with the theory that government intervention makes industry-self regulation more mandated and less voluntary. Under less government intervention, industry actors may promote more voluntary efforts to comply. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - August 19, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Psychological Distress, Terrorist Involvement and Disengagement from Terrorism: A Sequence Analysis Approach
ConclusionsThe results helped highlight the complexity of ‘being’ a terrorist; multiple factors at individual, social, and group levels impact on an individual as they pass through life. Individuals engaged within terrorism encounter a number of risk factors, which if an individual has lower baseline levels of individual resilience and is not fully com mitted to the group identity, may impact them psychologically. The results highlighted that it is not the presence of risk factors which impact on an individual, but how they perceive these risk factors. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - July 31, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Exploring the Determinants of Crime-Terror Cooperation using Machine Learning
ConclusionsThe study finds that theory building should seek to examine temporal variation in the organizational structure of terrorist groups as a fruitful way forward for further understanding when a group is likely to engage in organized criminal behavior. It also suggests that scholars should seek to engage more critically with concepts surrounding the potential non-linear pathways in which groups end up engaging in organized crime. Finally, the results illustrate the utility of modern machine learning algorithms and inductive research processes for both academic and practitioner needs alike. Especially when dealing wit...
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - July 18, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Revisiting the Economics and Terrorism Nexus: Collective Deprivation, Ideology and Domestic Radicalization in the US (1948 –2016)
ConclusionsThe study challenges the view that economic conditions have no role in triggering terrorist mobilization. The differential effect of collective deprivation on far-right and far-left terrorism is compatible withsystem-justification andbacklash theories. Besides, the findings suggest that collective deprivation affects radicalization at an early phase rather than the offending phase. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - July 11, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

A Social Interactionist Approach to the Victim-Offender Overlap
ConclusionsThe findings indicate the victim-offender overlap is partly due to the behaviors of offenders and third parties during disputes that significantly increase the risk of conflict escalation. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - June 27, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Crime and Terror: Examining Criminal Risk Factors for Terrorist Recidivism
ConclusionsMany factors, including sentence length, age, and prior terrorist criminal records show similar impacts upon terrorist offenders. However, others have opposing impacts. While prior criminality is a known risk factor for criminal offenders, recidivism of terrorists into further terrorism involvement is inhibited by prior criminal records as opposed to prior records for terrorism. Marital status, generally seen as an inhibitor of criminality increases re-offending for the first offender group. This might be explained by the financial incentives that terrorism offenders and their families receive from the Palestini...
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - June 25, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

As Violence Unfolds: A Space –Time Study of Situational Triggers of Violent Victimization Among Urban Youth
ConclusionThis study demonstrates the value of documenting how individuals navigate their daily activity space, and ultimately advances our understanding of youth violence from a real-time, real-life standpoint. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - June 24, 2019 Category: Criminology Source Type: research