New lab publication using Twitter data to measure spatial and temporal crime concentration (Online first)

May 9, 2018 by

You can now access an online first article by Dr. John R. Hipp, Christopher Bates, Moshe Lichman & Dr. Padhraic Smyth in Justice Quarterly entitled, “Using Social Media to Measure Temporal Ambient Population: Does it Help Explain Local Crime Rates?” The article examines the use of social media data, geocoded Tweets, as a proxy for the temporal ambient population, in testing various implications of routine activities and crime pattern theories in Southern California.

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Using Social Media to Measure Temporal Ambient Population: Does it Help Explain Local Crime Rates?

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New lab publication on crime concentration and spatial scales (Online first)

August 15, 2017 by

You can now access an online first article by Dr. John R. Hipp, Dr. James C. Wo, & Young-An Kim in the Social Science Research entitled, “Studying neighborhood crime across different macro spatial scales: The case of robbery in 4 cities”. The article examines crime variation across macro-environments & micro-geographic units four cities.

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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X16307931

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New publication by graduate student Rylan Simpson

July 17, 2017 by

On July, 17 2017, ILSSC graduate student Rylan Simpson had a journal article published in Journal of Experimental Criminology entitled, “The Police Officer Perception Project (POPP): An experimental evaluation of factors that impact perceptions of the police.” The article featured experimental research Rylan Simpson conducted for his 2nd-year project in the department of Criminology, Law and Society.

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Recent meta-analysis by Dr. Kubrin reveals immigration does not raise crime.

June 27, 2017 by

Read more about Dr. Kubrin’s pioneering research and views on current immigration policy here:

Immigration does not raise crime, UCI-led study finds, refuting common assumption

Read the meta-analysis article published in the Inaugural issue of the Annual Review of Criminology here:

http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-criminol-032317-092026

 

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New lab publication on crime concentration

January 20, 2017 by

In December 2016 ILSSC faculty John Hipp and graduate student Young-an Kim had a journal article published in Journal of Quantitative Criminology entitled, “Measuring Crime Concentration across Cities of Varying Sizes: Complications Based on the Spatial and Temporal Scale Employed.” The article raises conceptual and methodological challenges to measuring the concentration of crime in cities.

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