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 …

Spatial distribution and developmental trajectories of crime versus crime severity: do not abandon the count-based model just yet

V Harinam, Z Bavcevic, B Ariel - Crime Science, 2022 - Springer
Purpose/background A new body of research that focuses on crime harm scores rather than
counts of crime incidents has emerged. Specifically in the context of spatial analysis of …

Investigating crime harm index in the low and downward crime contexts: a spatio-temporal analysis of the Japanese Crime Harm Index

T Ohyama, K Hanyu, M Tani, M Nakae - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Since Louis Thurstone, there have been nearly 100 years of attempts to compare
and evaluate the severities of different crime types. Further research has been recently …

The Compounding Effect: How Co-Offending Exacerbates the Harm Caused by Violent Offenders

E Piper, B Ariel, V Harinam, M Bland - American Journal of Criminal …, 2024 - Springer
To what extent do violent offenders cause harm to victims when they act independently
versus when they collaborate with others? Currently, it remains unclear whether co …

Crime on the mass transit system in Hong Kong: a hotspots and harmspots trajectory approach

YM Ng, B Ariel, V Harinam - Policing: An International Journal, 2023 - emerald.com
Crime on the mass transit system in Hong Kong: a hotspots and harmspots trajectory approach
| Emerald Insight Books and journals Case studies Expert Briefings Open Access Publish with …

Redrawing hot spots of crime in Dallas, Texas

AP Wheeler, S Reuter - Police Quarterly, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
In this work we evaluate the predictive capability of identifying long term, micro place hot
spots in Dallas, Texas. We create hot spots using a clustering algorithm, using law …

A simple metric for predicting repeated intimate partner violence harm based on the level of harm of the index offence (… as long as a non-linear statistic is applied)

KM Loewenstein, B Ariel, V Harinam… - Policing: An International …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose A recent body of evidence investigated repeated intimate partner violence (IPV)
using crime harm indices (the severity of victimisation), instead of crime counts (the number …

Static or dynamic? Characterize and forecast the evolution of urban crime distribution

Q Zhu, F Zhang, S Liu, L Wang, S Wang - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite the considerable deployed resources, current policing efforts are failing to stop
crimes before they start, and therefore, also failing to adequately protect lives and property …

A method for organized crime harm assessment: Connecting associated crimes

J Gómez-Quintero, S Chainey… - Policing: A Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The increasing call for harm-focused approaches warrants a method for assessing the harm
of organized crime. A harm assessment of organized crime can be of use to law enforcement …

Quantifying the impact: From prevalence to harm in evaluating police misconduct

LM Dario, GT Cesar, K Jalbert, F de la Torre - Journal of Criminal Justice, 2024 - Elsevier
Purpose To assess the prevalence and nature of police misconduct and discipline in Florida
from 2012 to 2023. To measure the relative harm of criminal offenses committed by a subset …