Crime clearance rates in Canadian municipalities: A test of Donald Black's theory of law

Wong, Siu Kwong

doi:10.1016/j.ijlcj.2009.11.002

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“…In one of the earliest studies undertaken in this area, Chaiken (1975) found that officers’ effectiveness in solving crime improved with the increase in departmental resources used for criminal investigation. Similarly, a more recent study conducted by Wong (2010) revealed that resources available—as measured by police expenditures—are positively associated with the clearance capability of the police.…”

Section: Factors Affecting Clearance Ratesmentioning

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Marijuana Legalization and Crime Clearance Rates: Testing Proponent Assertions in Colorado and Washington State

Makin

Willits

et al. 2018

Police Quarterly

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The legalization of recreational cannabis in Washington state (I-502) and Colorado (A-64) created a natural experiment with ancillary unknowns. Of these unknowns, one of the more heavily debated is that of the potential effects on public health and safety. Specific to public safety, advocates of legalization expected improvements in police effectiveness through the reduction in police time and attention to cannabis offenses, thus allowing them to reallocate resources to more serious offenses. Using 2010 to 2015 Uniform Crime Reports data, the research undertakes interrupted time-series analysis on the offenses known to be cleared by arrest to create

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Section: Factors Affecting Clearance Ratesmentioning

confidence: 85%

Marijuana Legalization and Crime Clearance Rates: Testing Proponent Assertions in Colorado and Washington State

Makin

Willits

et al. 2018

Police Quarterly

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“…The majority of the sparse research on crime clearance that considers burglary simply includes the offense in the calculation of property crime clearance rates (Doerner and Doerner, 2012;Paré et al, 2007;Wong, 2010). As a result, relatively little is known about the factors that influence burglary clearance rates and the underlying causal processes.…”

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What clears burglary offenses? Estimating the influences of multiple perspectives of burglary clearance in Philadelphia

Lockwood

2014

Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies &Amp; Management

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -Although many studies have examined the correlates of homicide clearance rates, few analyses have examined the factors related to the clearance of burglary offenses. The purpose of this paper is to address several gaps in the literature to determine if burglary clearance rates are due to discretionary, non-discretionary, and/or neighborhood contextual factors. Design/methodology/approach -Data are analyzed from more than 10,000 burglary incidents in Philadelphia from 2010 using multilevel models to simultaneously test for the influence of multiple perspectives of the factors of crime clearance. Findings -The results indicate that variables representing broken windows enforcement, discretionary factors, and non-discretionary factors are related to the increased likelihood that burglaries are cleared, but processes associated with social disorganization within communities is not.Research limitations/implications -The findings contribute to the literature by showing that future examinations of the factors of burglary clearance should consider community contextual factors, and specifically, that broken windows police enforcement appears to be a more important predictor of burglary clearance than do factors related to social disorganization theory. As a result, it is suggested that law enforcement also consider their tactics regarding low-level offenses if they wish to address the clearance rate of burglaries. Originality/value -This analysis is among the first to examine multiple perspectives of the factors of crime clearance on burglary incidents.

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“…The importance of The Behavior of Law for studies on decision-making in the criminal justice system is notable. Wong (2010) claims that it is impossible to understand homicide clearance without considering this theory. On the contrary, Litwin (2004) suggests that besides the five dimensions highlighted by Black (1976), organizational factors also play an important role in the likelihood of clearance and conviction.…”

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“…Support for Black’s theory remains somewhat mixed (Regoeczi et al, 2020; Spohn, 2000; Ulmer, 2012; Wong, 2010), with few studies using this framework to understand the decision-making process in the Criminal Justice System in Brazil (Graham et al, 2013; T. R. Oliveira, 2018).…”

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The Flow of Murder Cases Through the Criminal Justice System in a Brazilian City

Ribeiro

Diniz

2020

Homicide Studies

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The flow of homicide cases in Brazil can be described as a funnel, as numerous events are reported to the police but only a few are convicted. This article aims to identify the variables influencing time to clearance and time to conviction for murder cases in Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais) by examining a sample of police investigations (uncleared cases) and criminal proceedings (cleared cases) closed between 2003 and 2013. Using Cox proportional hazard model, we found that time to clearance is affected by crime attributes and police procedures although time to conviction is affected only by arrest in flagrante delicto.

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Crime clearance rates in Canadian municipalities: A test of Donald Black's theory of law

Cited by 11 publications

References 57 publications

Marijuana Legalization and Crime Clearance Rates: Testing Proponent Assertions in Colorado and Washington State

Marijuana Legalization and Crime Clearance Rates: Testing Proponent Assertions in Colorado and Washington State

What clears burglary offenses? Estimating the influences of multiple perspectives of burglary clearance in Philadelphia

The Flow of Murder Cases Through the Criminal Justice System in a Brazilian City

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