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Concentration of personal and household crimes in England and Wales
journal contribution
posted on 2014-07-09, 15:40 authored by Andromachi Tseloni, Ioannis Ntzoufras, Anna Nicolaou, Ken PeaseCrime is disproportionally concentrated in few areas. Though long established, there remains uncertainty about the reasons for variation in the concentration of similar crime (repeats) or different crime (multiples). Wholly neglected have been composite crimes when more than one crime types coincide as parts of a single event. The research reported here disentangles area crime concentration into repeats, multiple and composite crimes. The results are based on estimated bivariate zero-inflated Poisson regression models with covariance structure which explicitly account for crime rarity and crime concentration. The implications of the results for criminological theorizing and as a possible basis for more equitable police funding are discussed.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
European Journal of Applied MathematicsVolume
21Issue
4-5Pages
325 - 348Citation
TSELONI, A. ... et al, 2010. Concentration of personal and household crimes in England and Wales. European Journal of Applied Mathematics, 21 (4-5), pp.325-348.Publisher
© Cambridge University PressVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
Publication date
2010ISSN
0956-7925eISSN
1469-4425Publisher version
Language
- en