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Predictive Policing in a Developing Country: Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials
ConclusionsThe implementation of an international predictive policing software did not outperform local crime analysts in terms of crime reduction. Local crime analysts are more cost-effective. Given determined targeted places, a modest increase in police dosage of a specially trained police force could reduce crime in high-crime times. In developing countries new policing technologies and training require a deep understanding of the context to channel limited resources in the most efficient way. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - June 24, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

How do Racial and Ethnic Disparities Emerge in the Use of Restrictive Housing for Prison Rule Violations?
ConclusionsVariance in the magnitude of racial and ethnic disparities in the use of RH for rule violations makes sense across prison settings and, as opposed to general race and ethnicity effects, should guide our understanding of the sources of these disparities with the goal of reducing their impacts. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - June 23, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Impulsivity, Peers, and Delinquency: A Dynamic Social Network Approach
ConclusionsIn sum, this study offers a more holistic framework and stronger theoretical tests than similar studies of the past. Our results illustrate the need to consider the simultaneous network processes related to peers, impulsivity, and delinquency. Further, our findings reveal that a large dataset with ample statistical power is a valuable advantage for detecting the selection processes that shape friendship networks. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - June 18, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

A Robust Measure to Uncover Community Brokerage in Illicit Networks
ConclusionsCommunity brokers are especially important in illicit networks where large-scale covert coordination among criminal entrepreneurs is risky. The measure we propose is not overlapping with currently existing brokerage measures and has the potential to contribute to our understanding of how products and information flow beyond local networks, in criminology and other fields. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - June 18, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Officer Networks and Firearm Behaviors: Assessing the Social Transmission of Weapon-Use
ConclusionsOur study suggests officers ’ peers structure the risk of firearm use. Our data allow us to look at time order and rule out situational confounders pertaining to firearm use; however, do not allow us to infer causality. We discuss the study’s implications for understanding firearm behaviors and the role of network science in moving policing research forward. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - June 15, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Measuring the Impacts of Everyday Police Proactive Activities: Tackling the Endogeneity Problem
ConclusionsShort-term adjustments in hot spot patrols appear to produce both reporting effects and temporary residual deterrent effects as measured through calls for service and police vehicle location data. Police could potentially enhance and prolong their deterrence by adopting more deliberate strategies with their daily proactive behaviors, including making their proactive activities more targeted and sustained. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - June 1, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Pathways Through Juvenile Justice: A System-Level Assessment of Cumulative Disadvantage in the Processing of Juvenile Offenders
ConclusionsThe results underscore the need for more careful measurement and analysis of disadvantage and disparities in the criminal and juvenile justice systems. In particular, more attention should be paid to early outcomes such as detention, where large differences between racial and ethnic groups were observed, as well as to relative and absolute differences in processing outcomes. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - June 1, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Equal Pay for Equal Work? Considering the Gender Gap in Illegal Pay
ConclusionsThe disadvantage women face in the legal workforce extends to illegal markets, and our understanding about the gender gap in legal pay can be translated to criminal contexts. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - June 1, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Gang Graffiti, Group Process, and Gang Violence
ConclusionsFindings suggest gang graffiti provides clear clues about local “staging grounds,” where gang status is on the line and violence is expected and easily provoked. Thus, while gangs increasingly are dissing rivals and airing beefs through music (e.g., “diss tracks”) and in cyberspace, many still occupy and defend turf and write graffiti that communicates t hreats to other gangs and feeds into group processes associated with violence escalation and contagion. (Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - June 1, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research