When Choice of Data Matters: Analyses of U.S. Crime Trends, 1973–2012

Lauritsen, Janet L.; Rezey, Maribeth L.; Heimer, Karen

doi:10.1007/s10940-015-9277-2

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“…Based on these findings, we disagree with assertions by Kleck and Jackson (2016: 20) that, "Higher crime rates do not cause increased support for harsher punishment of criminals, nor does personal experience as a crime victim, vicarious victimization through the experiences of others." Additionally, to the degree that discrepancies between the UCR and NCVS are produced by a change in policing behaviors (Lauritsen, Rezey, and Heimer, 2016;O'Brien, 1996), our findings suggest that this social construction of UCR statistics can affect death penalty support. News media prioritize and disproportionately cover violent crimes (Reiner, 2007).…”

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confidence: 79%

Age, Period, and Cohort Effects on Death Penalty Attitudes in the United States, 1974–2014

2017

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In this article, we further the understanding of both changes in public opinion on capital punishment in the United States and changes in the factors associated with public opinion on the death penalty. Support for the death penalty may be motivated by events happening during specific time periods, and it can vary across birth cohorts as a result of cohort‐specific socialization processes, demographic changes, and formative events that are specific to each generation. An explication of the sources of and variation in death penalty attitudes over time would benefit from the accounting for the age of the respondent, the year of the survey response, and the birth cohort of the respondent. We improve on previous research by using multiple approaches including hierarchical age–period–cohort models and data from the General Social Survey (N = 41,474) to examine changes in death penalty attitudes over time and across birth cohorts. The results showed curvilinear age effects, strong period effects, and weak cohort effects on death penalty support. The violent crime rate explained much of the variation in support for the death penalty across periods. The examination of subgroup differences suggests that support for the death penalty is becoming concentrated among Whites, Protestants, and Republicans.

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confidence: 79%

Age, Period, and Cohort Effects on Death Penalty Attitudes in the United States, 1974–2014

2017

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“…4 This collection of data offers several advantages for this study. First, UCR data are the most commonly used criminal justice statistics (Mosher, Miethe, and Phillips, 2002) with evidence of reliable reporting of serious felonies over time that accurately track victimization trends (Blumstein, Cohen, and Rosenfeld, 1991; Lauritsen, Rezey, and Heimer, 2016). Second, the data coverage is available for the full study period (1990–2014), providing an opportunity to examine the longitudinal criminological consequences of the dramatic growth in unauthorized immigration in recent decades.…”

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Does Undocumented Immigration Increase Violent Crime?*

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Miller²

2018

Criminology

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Despite substantial public, political, and scholarly attention to the issue of immigration and crime, we know little about the criminological consequences of undocumented immigration. As a result, fundamental questions about whether undocumented immigration increases violent crime remain unanswered. In an attempt to address this gap, we combine newly developed estimates of the unauthorized population with multiple data sources to capture the criminal, socioeconomic, and demographic context of all 50 states and Washington, DC, from 1990 to 2014 to provide the first longitudinal analysis of the macro-level relationship between undocumented immigration and violence. The results from fixed-effects regression models reveal that undocumented immigration does not increase violence. Rather, the relationship between undocumented immigration and violent crime is generally negative, although not significant in all specifications. Using supplemental models of victimization data and instrumental variable methods, we find little evidence that these results are due to decreased reporting or selective migration to avoid crime. We consider the theoretical and policy implications of these findings against the backdrop of the dramatic increase in immigration enforcement in recent decades.

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“…When using any police-generated data on low-level crimes, caution is needed because of frequent measurement error (Berg and Lauritsen 2016;Lauritsen, Rezey and Heimer 2016). This is less of a concern here because I am using low-level arrests as a measure of police activity rather than as a measure of crime.…”

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Policing Gentrification: Stops and Low–Level Arrests during Demographic Change and Real Estate Reinvestment

Beck

2020

City & Community

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Does low‐level policing increase during gentrification? If so, are police responding to increased crime, increased demand by new residents, or are they attempting to “clean up” neighborhoods marked for economic redevelopment? To address these questions, I construct a longitudinal dataset of New York City neighborhoods from 2009 to 2015. I compile data on neighborhoods’ demographics, street stops, low‐level arrests, crimes, 311 calls to the police, and—using a novel measure—property values. Maps, spatiotemporal modeling, and fixed effects regressions compare changes in stops and low‐level arrests to changes in several measures of gentrification. I find, on average, calls to the police increased after a neighborhood's middle‐class population grew. Calls did not translate into more stops or low‐level arrests, however. Net of crime and spatial autocorrelation, police made more order‐maintenance and proactive arrests following real estate market growth, suggesting development‐directed policing. Property value growth in wealthy and already gentrified neighborhoods was not associated with an increase in arrests, underscoring policing's role in early‐stage urban “renewal.” The article includes an analysis of three sources of property value data.

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When Choice of Data Matters: Analyses of U.S. Crime Trends, 1973–2012

Cited by 64 publications

References 16 publications

Age, Period, and Cohort Effects on Death Penalty Attitudes in the United States, 1974–2014

Age, Period, and Cohort Effects on Death Penalty Attitudes in the United States, 1974–2014

Does Undocumented Immigration Increase Violent Crime?*

Policing Gentrification: Stops and Low–Level Arrests during Demographic Change and Real Estate Reinvestment

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