The adoption of a crime harm index: A scoping literature review

T van Ruitenburg, S Ruiter - Police practice and research, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Comparing methods for measuring crime harm/severity

MPJ Ashby - Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Ensuring police resources are focused where they are most needed requires understanding
of the consequences of crime in relation to offenders, victims, and places. Most crime …

The usefulness of a crime harm index: analyzing the Sacramento Hot Spot Experiment using the California Crime Harm Index (CA-CHI)

RJ Mitchell - Journal of experimental criminology, 2019 - Springer
Objectives This study introduces the California Crime Harm Index (CA-CHI) and explores in
what context a Crime Harm Index is a meaningful measure, comparing crime count …

How to count crime: the Cambridge harm index consensus

LW Sherman… - Cambridge Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
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The New Zealand crime harm index: Quantifying harm using sentencing data

S Curtis-Ham, D Walton - Policing: A Journal of Policy and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
This article describes the development of the New Zealand Crime Harm Index (NZ CHI), a
measure of relative harm from crime which is designed to enable targeting of limited police …

A framework to assess the harms of crimes

VA Greenfield, L Paoli - British journal of criminology, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Despite the centrality of harm to crime and criminalization and increasing interest in harm as
a basis for crime-control policy, the criminological community has yet done little to …

Harm: A neglected concept in criminology, a necessary benchmark for crime-control policy

L Paoli, VA Greenfield - European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and …, 2013 - brill.com
Despite the centrality of harm to crime and criminalization and increasing interest in harm as
a basis for crime-control policy, there has been little systematic reflection within criminology …

Developing a crime harm index for Western Australia: The WACHI

PD House, PW Neyroud - Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Research Question Can a reliable measure of precise harm levels for the 100 most
harmful and frequently occurring offences be developed in Western Australia (WA) based on …

Towards an index for harm-focused policing

JH Ratcliffe - Policing: A journal of policy and practice, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Measuring the effectiveness of the police in reducing harm to communities is often limited to
comparing violent crime counts from one year to another, and occasionally separately …

Measuring organised crime-related harms: exploring five policing methods

N Tusikov - Crime, law and social change, 2012 - Springer
Many law enforcement agencies around the world have adopted risk assessment
methodologies to analyse organised crime. These assessments, which are intended to …