Shadd Maruna, Kevin Roy
Several scholars have suggested that life changes—such as desistance from crime—may be shaped by social structures through a process of “knifing off.” Individuals are thought to change their lives by severing themselves from harmful environments, undesirable companions, or even the past itself. Desp...
Graeme Blair, Jeremy M. Weinstein, Fotini Christia, Eric Arias et al.
Is it possible to reduce crime without exacerbating adversarial relationships between police and citizens? Community policing is a celebrated reform with that aim, which is now adopted on six continents. However, the evidence base is limited, studying reform components in isolation in a limited set ...
David J. Simourd, Mark E. Olver
This study sought to explore the underlying dimension(s) of the criminal attitude construct. Exploratory factor analyses using an oblique rotation method were conducted separately on the subscales of the Criminal Sentiments Scale–Modified among a sample of 381 violent male offenders. These procedure...
Sohrab Hossain, Ahmed Abtahee, Imran Kashem, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque et al.
A crime is an action which constitutes a punishable offence by law. It is harmful for society so as to prevent the criminal activity, it is important to understand crime. Data driven researches are useful to prevent and solve crime. Recent research shows that 50% of the crimes are committed by only ...
Susan E. Howell, Huey L. Perry, Matthew Vile
Arnisha Akhter, Uzzal Kumar Acharjee, Md. Alamin Talukder, Md. Manowarul Islam et al.
Social networking platforms give users countless opportunities to share information, collaborate, and communicate positively. The same platform can be extended to a fabricated and poisonous atmosphere that gives an impersonal, harmful platform for online misuse and assault. Cyberstalking is when som...
Wagdy Loza, Amel Loza-Fanous
The goal of the present research was to examine the effectiveness of the Self-Appraisal Questionnaire (SAQ) in predicting release outcome as compared to other well-established risk prediction measures. The SAQ is a self-report measure designed to predict offenders' postrelease out-come. The SAQ was ...
David C. Pyrooz, Andrew M. Fox, Scott H. Decker
Abstract There is a lack of macro‐level gang research. The present study addresses this shortcoming by providing a theoretically informed analysis of gang membership in large US cities. More specifically, our goal is to determine whether racial and ethnic heterogeneity conditions the relationship be...
Md. Abdul Awal, Jakaria Rabbi, Sk Imran Hossain, M. M. A. Hashem
Crime is basically unpredictable and a social disturbance. With the increase in population of Bangladesh, the rate of crime is also increasing and affecting our society fatally in various ways. So it has become significant to analysis crime data for better understanding of future crime trends. In th...
Shadd Maruna, Anna King
With the release of the Casey Report, Engaging Communities in Fighting Crime (Casey, 2008), improving public confidence in criminal justice work, and community penalties in particular, has become a central concern for the British Government. Among the other suggestions for improving public confidenc...
Adam Calverley
© 2013 Adam Calverley. In contrast to the widespread focus on ethnicity in relation to engagement in offending, the question of whether or not processes associated with desistance – that is the cessation and curtailment of offending behaviour – vary by ethnicity has received less attention. This is ...
Jesia Quader Yuki, Md. Mahfil Quader Sakib, Zaisha Zamal, Khan Mohammad Habibullah et al.
To have a better response towards criminal activity, it is very important that one should understand the patterns in crime. We analyze this pattern by taking crime datasets from the Chicago Police Department's CLEAR (Citizen Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting) system. This dataset includes diffe...
Yeasir Rayhan, Tanzima Hashem
Accuracy and interpretability are two essential properties for a crime prediction model. Accurate prediction of future crime occurrences along with the reason behind a prediction would allow us to plan the crime prevention steps accordingly. The key challenge in developing the model is to capture th...
Nowshin Tasnim, Iftekher Toufique Imam, M. M. A. Hashem
Forecasting crime is complex since several complicated aspects contribute to a crime. Predicting crime becomes more challenging because of the enormous number of everyday crime episodes in varied places. Though there are many established machine learning and deep learning techniques, law enforcement...
Mohammed Imran, Mosharrof Hosen, Mohammad Ashraful Ferdous Chowdhury
Purpose Economic hardship and crime is always a debatable issue in the political economy literature. Some authors define poverty leads to crime some are completely opposite. The purpose of this paper is to find out the impact of poverty on crime in the USA. Design/methodology/approach Using time ser...