Policing Neighbourhoods: Exploring the Geographies of Crime, Policing and Performance Assessment This research was funded under ESRC CASE award PTA-033-2002-00026.

Ashby, David I.

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“…Likewise the rural criminal spans social classes and rural geographies. This is exacerbated by the fact that it is difficult gathering and comparing police crime statistics in rural areas (Ashby, 2005). In general terms the volume of crime reported in rural areas is lower than that in urban areas.…”

Section: Mapping Rural Crime Typesmentioning

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Developing a Working Typology of Rural Criminals: From a UK Police Intelligence Perspective

Smith¹

2014

International Journal of Rural Criminology

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This article develops a working typology of rural criminal types in a UK wide context. It considers strategies used by these diverse ideal-typologies of rural criminals to successfully evade the police intelligence apparatus. It demonstrates hidden links between illegal rural enterprise and local criminal networks whilst concentrating upon the intersection of traditional criminality and illegal entrepreneurship. This article explores the changing landscape of rural crime, positing new entrepreneurial strategies for tackling rural criminality in its myriad forms.

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Section: Mapping Rural Crime Typesmentioning

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Developing a Working Typology of Rural Criminals: From a UK Police Intelligence Perspective

Smith¹

2014

International Journal of Rural Criminology

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“…Además, con el impacto tecnológico de las últimas décadas, se cuenta con dispositivos GPS que han sido utilizados para disminuir y monitorear tanto las tasas de delincuencia como el desempeño en territorio por parte de las patrullas de policía como una forma de control y evaluación de su trabajo diario (Ashby 2005). Si bien es cierto que algunos estudios mencionan que la estrategia de zonas críticas en la ciudad ha demostrado suficientemente ser efectiva en reducir la tasa de delitos, todavía no se cuenta con información precisa y detallada que permita establecer de manera contundente los logros de la estrategia implementada (El Tiempo Diciembre 23 de 2015;El Tiempo Febrero 19 de 2016).…”

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Balance de estrategias de seguridad para zonas críticas en Bogotá y Medellín

Ruiz-Vásquez

Paez

2016

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ResumenLa estrategia de seguridad para zonas críticas (Hot spots Policing) utiliza un despliegue intensivo de pie de fuerza policial para hacer disminuir el crimen en aquellas zonas donde se encuentra altamente concentrado. En Colombia, las ciudades de Bogotá y Medellín han venido implementando este modelo de manera sistemática desde el 2009 independientemente de los cambios de sus administraciones. Este artículo hace un primer balance de la forma como se han implementado las estrategias de seguridad ciudadana para las zonas críticas (Hot spots Policing) comparando las experiencias de Bogotá y Medellín desde el 2009. Concluye que, dada la falta de evaluaciones científicas sobre su implementación, no se puede determinar de manera definitiva que la criminalidad haya disminuido, aunque la reducción de los delitos parece ser mayor donde la presencia policial ha aumentado.Palabras clave: Seguridad ciudadana, zonas críticas, hot spots policing, Bogotá, Medellín. AbstractHot spots policing strategy uses pervasive deployment of police officers on the beat to reduce crime, which is highly concentrated in a few areas. In Colombia, cities like Bogota and Medellin have systematically implemented this model since 2009 regardless changes of their administrations. This article assesses the practice of both experiences on the way in which the model has been implemented from 2009. It concludes that, as result of the lack of scientific evaluations, it is impossible to definitely determine that crime has decreased in such sensitive areas; notwithstanding, crime reduction seems to be higher where police presence has increased.

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“…Indeed, recent national press coverage of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Centenary Report was focused on simple counts of the number of wards within certain local authority districts which fall above or below some threshold of deprivation (JRF, 2004). Such generalizations often fail to capture or highlight much of the underlying heterogeneity of social conditions within small administrative areas (Ashby, 2005;Ashby & Longley, 2005;Williamson et al, forthcoming). The approach used in this analysis however, is somewhat different and relies on techniques pioneered during the Liverpool Inner Area Study in the early 1970s (Webber 1975(Webber , 1977(Webber , 1978Webber & Craig, 1978) and enhanced during the 1980s and 1990s in the commercial sector by many of the country's leading retailing and financial organizations (e.g.…”

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“…However, somewhat simplistic analyses in this context are now being developed further; in 1998 the British Crime Survey produced a 'risk index' for the first time which indicated that people from what were described as 'striving communities' were nine times more at risk than the average for all types of households. Furthermore, recent evidence that we have collected from our geodemographic analysis of the British Crime Survey 2000 and from analysis of offender records in County Durham and in the North and East Devon Basic Command Unit of the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary suggests that the variation in crime and disorder between affluent and disadvantaged neighbourhoods is considerable, indeed even greater in degree than differences in the variations of unemployment, income, poor health and educational attainment (Ashby, 2005;Ashby & Longley, 2005;Webber & Williamson, 2003;Williamson, Ashby, & Webber, forthcoming).…”

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confidence: 96%

“…Webber, 1985Webber, , 2004Webber & Hodgkins, 1995). This approach is founded upon the proposition that socially disadvantaged areas differ in terms of their pathology of social disadvantage as well as in terms of their level of disadvantage; that there exist qualitatively different types of disadvantaged areas; that their different forms of social disadvantage originate from significantly different historical trajectories; and that the different types of neighbourhood are often suited to quite different types of priority area remedial programme (Ashby, 2005;Webber, 1985Webber, , 2004Webber & Farr, 2001;Williamson et al, forthcoming).…”

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confidence: 98%

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Young offenders, schools and the neighbourhood: a new approach to data‐analysis for community policing

Williamson

Ashby

Webber

2005

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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Youth offending often lies at the heart of community policing programmes. The primary objective of this study is to provide evidence of the extent to which the level and the pattern of youth offending varies between different types of neighbourhood and the schools they attend. We posit that the adoption of neighbourhood typology based analyses, frequently used in the commercial world, are appropriate to address this issue. We substantiate this argument with the analysis of a large anonymized database (c. 34,000 records spanning 5 years) containing the details of youth offenders and their offences in Nottinghamshire, segmented by neighbourhood type. The neighbourhood classification used, a proprietary geodemographic solution, is based on both census and consumer data, and segments all UK postcodes into 61 neighbourhood types and 11 aggregate groups. The results are analysed with reference to nine conditions: level of offending (total numbers of offences and offenders); single/repeat offenders; gender; ethnicity; offence classification; outcome; context (including temporal conditions such as school holidays); whether the offender accepted or denied occurrence; and age at the time of the occurrence.Of particular interest is the association between the offenders and educational establishments, and thus the identification of schools that are most at risk for recidivism, raising questions regarding the concept of criminogenic schools. A number of policy recommendations are made which could lead to better informed strategy management in youth offending. We conclude that geodemographic analysis can leverage extra value and substantial insight from operational data bases collected on a routine basis. However, this poses the question as to why public sector practitioners and planners have not already made use of such analytical techniques, which have been central to

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Policing Neighbourhoods: Exploring the Geographies of Crime, Policing and Performance Assessment This research was funded under ESRC CASE award PTA-033-2002-00026.

Cited by 25 publications

References 32 publications

Developing a Working Typology of Rural Criminals: From a UK Police Intelligence Perspective

Developing a Working Typology of Rural Criminals: From a UK Police Intelligence Perspective

Balance de estrategias de seguridad para zonas críticas en Bogotá y Medellín

Young offenders, schools and the neighbourhood: a new approach to data‐analysis for community policing

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