Does level of geography influence proactive policing's impact on crime? A synthesis of systematic reviews of three evidence-based policing strategies

Petersen, Kevin; Weisburd, David; Hinkle, Joshua C.; Telep, Cody W.; Fay, Sydney

doi:10.1016/j.avb.2024.101988

Aggression and Violent Behavior

2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.avb.2024.101988

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Does level of geography influence proactive policing's impact on crime? A synthesis of systematic reviews of three evidence-based policing strategies

Kevin Petersen,

David Weisburd,

Joshua C. Hinkle

et al.

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‘Domestic abuse hot spots’: A longitudinal, place-based analysis of 13 years of initial reports to the police

Kumar,

Ariel,

Hodgkinson

et al. 2024

Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice

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A rich body of literature suggests that crime is concentrated in hotspots, some consistently ‘hot’ over long periods. However, whether there are spatial and temporal concentrations of domestic abuse (DA) is presently unknown. While it is plausible that DA data follow similar Pareto curves as general crime, it is equally reasonable to assume stochasticity, especially regarding year-to-year consistency. We conducted a retrospective longitudinal analysis of 1.7 million DA initial reports to the police (as opposed to ‘crime incidents’) over 13 years (2007–19) in London, UK. We also examine crime harm patterns, which provide a more nuanced risk estimate for victims based on a crime harm index. We utilize a combination of spatial statistics and trajectory modelling approaches. We find that a small percentage of addresses are responsible for an outsized proportion of DA counts but half the bandwidth for crime harm generated. Year-to-year repeat victimization at specific addresses is 69.9%, and the mean probability of receiving another DA report from the same address in the following month is 41%. For both crime count and harm models, locations with either low or high DA reportage remained as such throughout the study. Changes in less than 1% of locations will drive DA trends in London. We conclude that concentrating on place-based emergency-calls-for-service data rather than crime reports unmasks a substantially greater likelihood of repeat DA victimization than previously assumed. The discovery of a spatiotemporal DA hotspot allows law enforcement to ‘zero in’ prevention efforts on a small number of premises relative to the overall scale of the capital. Future DA research should place greater weight on micro-place factors associated with DA to calibrate prevention efforts’ accuracy and efficiency.

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‘Domestic abuse hot spots’: A longitudinal, place-based analysis of 13 years of initial reports to the police

Kumar,

Ariel,

Hodgkinson

et al. 2024

Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice

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Does level of geography influence proactive policing's impact on crime? A synthesis of systematic reviews of three evidence-based policing strategies

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‘Domestic abuse hot spots’: A longitudinal, place-based analysis of 13 years of initial reports to the police

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