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The role of protection measures and their interaction in determining building vulnerability and resilience to bioterrorism

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Taylor, J., Margaritis, D., Nasir, Z., Borrion, H., & Lai, K. M.

This article has been published in the Journal of Bioterrorism & Biodefense.

Integrating Environmental Considerations into Prisoner Risk Assessments

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Lisa Tompson & Spencer Chainey (2013)

This article has been published in the European Journal of Probation

Target Choice During Extreme Events : A Discrete Spatial Choice Model of the 2011 London Riots. Criminology.

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Peter Baudains, Alex Braithwaite and Shane D Johnson (2013)

An article published in Criminology was recently published by Wiley online.

A Stab in the Dark: A Research note on Temporal Patterns of Street Robbery

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Lisa Tompson and Kate J Bowers (2013)

Please see link for further details : http://jrc.sagepub.com/content/early/recent

Offenses around Stadiums: A Natural Experiment on Crime Attraction and Generation.

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Justin Kurland, Shane D. Johnson and Nick Tilley (2013)

Please see link for further details  : http://jrc.sagepub.com/content/early/recent

Spatial, Temporal and Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Maritime Piracy

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Elio Marchione and Shane D. Johnson (2013)

This paper has recently been published in the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

Status, gender and geography : power negotiations in police research

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Dr Jyoti Belur has recently had an article published in Qualitative Research (DOI: 10.1177/1468794112468474)

Stop and search, the use of intelligence and geographic targeting

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Spencer Chainey and Ian Macdonald, 2012.

This report presents findings from research carried out in the mid-2000s to
examine the role played by intelligence in police stop and search practices. As
earlier research has suggested that the effective use of intelligence in stop and
search can help improve the effectiveness and the fairness of the power
(Quinton et al 2000), the study focused on three main questions:

MSc Open Evening - 14 Scholarships

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Open evening for MSc Crime Science, MSc Countering Organised Crime & Terrorism and MSc Crime & Forensic Science: Wednesday 20th February 2013, 6-8pm.
For further information see our events page.

Child sexual exploitation and youth offending: A research note

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SECReT DTC PhD students Ella Cockbain and Helen Brayley have recently had an article published in the European Journal of Criminology.

For details of the article click here.

Community Safety Analyst vacancy

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Based in Stockton-on-Tees. The closing date for this vacancy is 31st December 2012 - for further information see our Careers & Vacancies pages.

Spatial Patterns in the 2011 London Riots

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Peter Baudains, Alex Braithwaite and Shane D. Johnson

View full article published in Policing - Oxford Journals (Volume 6, Number 2, 2012)





Preventing Repeat Victimization: A Systematic Review

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Grove, L., Farrell, G., Farrington, D.F, and Johnson, S.D.

 Download full article published by bra Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (11 June 2012)

Seeing Through Walls with a Wireless Router

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Kevin Chetty

 View full article published on PopSci (7 March 2012)

Towards the Modest Predictability of Daily Burglary Counts

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Shane D. Johnson, Kate J. Bowers, and Ken Pease


 View full article published in Policing - Oxford Journals (Volume 6, Number 2, 2012)

Does geographically focused policing displace crime spatially?

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Kate J. Bowers, Shane D. Johnson, Rob T. Guerette, Lucia Summers and Suzanne Poynton


View abstract published in the Journal of Experimental Criminology (Volume 7, Number 4, 2011)

Space–Time Modeling of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Iraq

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Alex Braithwaite and Shane D. Johnson


View abstract published in the Journal of Quantitive Criminology (Volume 28, Issue 1, 2012)

Engagement, Empowerment and Transparency:Publishing Crime Statistics using Online Crime Mapping

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Spencer Chainey and Lisa Tompson


Click here for press release (30 May 2012)

Improving the Explanatory Content of Analysis Products using Hypothesis Testing

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Spencer Chainey


View full article in Policing Advance Access published March 14, 2012

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