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Concentration of personal and household crimes in England and Wales

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posted on 2014-07-09, 15:40 authored by Andromachi Tseloni, Ioannis Ntzoufras, Anna Nicolaou, Ken Pease
Crime is disproportionally concentrated in few areas. Though long established, there remains uncertainty about the reasons for variation in the concentration of similar crime (repeats) or different crime (multiples). Wholly neglected have been composite crimes when more than one crime types coincide as parts of a single event. The research reported here disentangles area crime concentration into repeats, multiple and composite crimes. The results are based on estimated bivariate zero-inflated Poisson regression models with covariance structure which explicitly account for crime rarity and crime concentration. The implications of the results for criminological theorizing and as a possible basis for more equitable police funding are discussed.

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School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

Published in

European Journal of Applied Mathematics

Volume

21

Issue

4-5

Pages

325 - 348

Citation

TSELONI, A. ... et al, 2010. Concentration of personal and household crimes in England and Wales. European Journal of Applied Mathematics, 21 (4-5), pp.325-348.

Publisher

© Cambridge University Press

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publication date

2010

ISSN

0956-7925

eISSN

1469-4425

Language

  • en