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Science of Crime Measurement

Martin A. Andresen
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Census Tract
Crime Analysis
Crime Control
Crime Counts
Crime Prevention
crime rate calculation
Crime Rate Calculations
Dissemination Areas
Downtown Eastside
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environmental criminology
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Geography of Crime
Intelligence Analysis
Larger Spatial Units
Location Quotient
Metro Vancouver Area
Micro-spatial Unit
Negative Relationship
population at risk
Quantitative Criminology
Routine Activity Theory
Social Disorganization Theory
spatial crime analysis
Spatial Criminology
Spatial Error Model
spatial heterogeneity in crime data
Spatial Point Pattern
Spatial Regression Results
Spatial Unit
Street Segments
temporal aggregation
urban crime patterns
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781138899957
  • Weight: 370g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 22 May 2015
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

Crime statistics are ubiquitous in modern society – but how accurate are they? This book investigates the science of crime measurement focussing on four main questions: how do we count crime? How do we calculate crime rates? Are there other measurements of crime? What are the issues surrounding crime statistics? All too often we take the measurement of crime at face value when there is, in fact, a science behind it.

This book specifically deals with issues related to spatially-referenced crime data that are used to analyse crime patterns across the urban environment. The first section of the book considers alternative crime rate calculations. The second section of the book contains a thorough discussion of a measure of crime specialisation. Finally, the third section of the book addresses a number of aggregation issues that are present with such data: crime type aggregations, temporal aggregations of crime data, the stability of crime patterns over time, and the importance of spatial scale.

This book builds on a growing body of literature on the science of crime measurement and offers a comprehensive account of this growing subfield of criminology. The book speaks to wider debates in the fields of crime analysis, environmental criminology and crime prevention and will be perfect reading for advanced level undergraduate and graduate students looking to find out more about the measurement of crime.
About Martin A. Andresen
Martin A. Andresen is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies at Simon Fraser University, Canada. His research interests include crime measurement, spatial crime analysis, environmental criminology, and the geography of crime. This research has been published in leading journals on both criminology and geography including: Applied Geography, British Journal of Criminology, Environment and Planning A, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and Urban Studies.

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