An emerging line of research explores how calculating the harm associated with different
types of crime serves as a method to measure crime across times, places and people. A …

The logic of simply summing crimes of all kind into a single total has long been challenged
as misleading. All crimes are not created equal. Counting them as if they are fosters …

Objectives To determine whether crime-reduction effects of increased police patrols in hot
spots are dependent on the “hard” threat of immediate physical arrest, or whether “soft” …

Increasing numbers of police professionals have decided to practice evidence-based
policing. Yet many of these “early adopters” encounter opposition from their colleagues …

The use of risk assessment tools by frontline police for intimate partner violence has the
potential to make a difference to policing. In this paper, the key aspects of intimate partner …

Contextualising randomised experiments in a wide range of causal designs
 …

Abstract The Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Honour Based Violence (DASH) form is a
standardized risk assessment implemented across most UK police forces. It is intended to …

ABSTRACT Police in the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK) now routinely use
risk assessment tools to identify common risk factors for re-abuse and lethality when …

The prevailing pattern in much of the social sciences, including geography and criminology,
relies on count data.“Hotspots”—geospatial areas with disproportionally more crime than the …

Abstract Research Question Does the severity or frequency of intimate partner violence or
abuse reported to police increase over time, once a unique perpetrator-victim couple has …