Association between race, shooting hot spots, and the surge in gun violence during the COVID-19 pandemic in Philadelphia, New York and Los Angeles

J MacDonald, G Mohler, PJ Brantingham - Preventive medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Gun violence rates increased in US cities in 2020 and into 2021. Gun violence rates in US
cities is typically concentrated in racially segregated neighborhoods with higher poverty …

Investigating clustering and violence interruption in gang-related violent crime data using spatial–temporal point processes with covariates

J Park, FP Schoenberg, AL Bertozzi… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Reported gang-related violent crimes in Los Angeles, California, from 1/1/14 to 12/31/17 are
modeled using spatial–temporal marked Hawkes point processes with covariates. We …

The impact of measurement error in regression models using police recorded crime rates

J Pina-Sánchez, D Buil-Gil, I Brunton-Smith… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2023 - Springer
Objectives Assess the extent to which measurement error in police recorded crime rates
impact the estimates of regression models exploring the causes and consequences of crime …

Is the recent surge in violence in American cities due to contagion?

PJ Brantingham, J Carter, J MacDonald, C Melde… - Journal of criminal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Firearm violence rates have increased in US cities in 2020 and into 2021. We investigate
contagious and non-contagious space-time clustering in shooting events in four US cities …

How and why is crime more concentrated in some neighborhoods than others?: A new dimension to community crime

DT O'Brien, A Ciomek, R Tucker - Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2021 - Springer
Objectives Much recent work has focused on how crime concentrates on particular streets
within communities. This is the first study to examine how such concentrations vary across …

[HTML][HTML] Do mobile phone data provide a better denominator in crime rates and improve spatiotemporal predictions of crime?

A Rummens, T Snaphaan, N Van de Weghe… - … International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
This article assesses whether ambient population is a more suitable population-at-risk
measure for crime types with mobile targets than residential population for the purpose of …

Too fine to be good? Issues of granularity, uniformity and error in spatial crime analysis

RG Ramos, BFA Silva, KC Clarke, M Prates - Journal of Quantitative …, 2021 - Springer
Objectives Crime counts are sensitive to granularity choice. There is an increasing interest in
analyzing crime at very fine granularities, such as street segments, with one of the reasons …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the impact of measurement error in police recorded crime rates through sensitivity analysis

J Pina-Sánchez, I Brunton-Smith, D Buil-Gil, A Cernat - Crime Science, 2023 - Springer
It is well known that police recorded crime data is susceptible to substantial measurement
error. However, despite its limitations, police data is widely used in regression models …

Where racial and ethnic disparities in policing come from: The spatial concentration of arrests across six cities

R Neil, JM MacDonald - Criminology & Public Policy, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Research Summary This study examines the extent to which citywide racial and ethnic
disparities in arrests are driven by a subset of places within cities. Data are drawn from six …

Measuring Marginal Crime Concentration: A New Solution to an Old Problem

A Chalfin, J Kaplan, M Cuellar - Journal of Research in …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives: In his 2014 Sutherland address to the American Society of Criminology, David
Weisburd demonstrated that the share of crime that is accounted for by the most crime …