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Target Choice During Extreme Events : A Discrete Spatial Choice Model of the 2011 London Riots. Criminology.
Peter Baudains, Alex Braithwaite and Shane D Johnson (2013) More...
A Stab in the Dark: A Research note on Temporal Patterns of Street Robbery
Lisa Thompson and Kate J Bowers (2013) More...
Offenses around Stadiums: A Natural Experiment on Crime Attraction and Generation.
Justin Kurland, Shane D. Johnson and Nick Tilley (2013) More...
Spatial, Temporal and Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Maritime Piracy
Elio Marchione and Shane D. Johnson (2013) More...
Status, gender and geography : power negotiations in police research
Dr Jyoti Belur has recently had an article published in Qualitative Research (DOI: 10.1177/1468794112468474) More...
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Target Choice During Extreme Events : A Discrete Spatial Choice Model of the 2011 London Riots. Criminology.
Publication date: 6 March 2013
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
Publication date: 28 January 2013
Lisa Thompson 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.
Publication date: 28 January 2013
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
Publication date: 25 January 2013
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
Publication date: 22 January 2013
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
Publication date: 22 January 2013
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
Publication date: 17 January 2013
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
Publication date: 8 January 2013
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
Publication date: 19 December 2012
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
Publication date: 14 November 2012
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
Publication date: 31 July 2012
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
Publication date: 31 July 2012
Kevin Chetty
View full article published on PopSci (7 March 2012)
Towards the Modest Predictability of Daily Burglary Counts
Publication date: 24 May 2012
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?
Publication date: 3 May 2012
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
Publication date: 2 May 2012
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
Publication date: 2 May 2012
Spencer Chainey and Lisa Tompson
Click here for press release (30 May 2012)
Improving the Explanatory Content of Analysis Products using Hypothesis Testing
Publication date: 2 May 2012
Spencer Chainey
View full article in Policing Advance Access published March 14, 2012

