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Subject: Business CrimeBribery and corporate corruption.
PARKER, Jessica
Criminal Law and Justice Weekly (Vol. 180 no. 6, 13 February 2016, p.103-104.)
Reports on the conviction of Smith and Ouzman Ltd, which is the first conviction in relation to international corruption investigated by the Serious Fraud Office. It also details how the fine was calculated.
Subject: Community Policing
Citizen participation in community safety: a comparative study of community policing in South Korea and the UK.
CHOI, Kwan; LEE, Ju-lak
Policing and Society (Vol. 26 no. 2, 2016, p.165-184.)
View full text (via Athens): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2014.922087
British participants were attracted to community policing by factors that primarily benefitted them as individuals, and community crime prevention was a secondary concern, whereas for South Korea, participation in community policing was an extension of their commitment to their community.
Multi-sector cooperation in preventing crime: the case of a South African Neighbourhood Watch as an effective crime prevention model.
GRAAN, Johan van
Police Practice and Research (Vol. 17 no. 2, April 2016, p136-148.)
View full text (via Athens): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15614263.2015.1128159
Studies the role and contribution of local communities as an effective vehicle of crime prevention drawing on multi-sector co-operation and aims to contribute to the general framework for the growth of successful multi-sector community-based crime prevention initiatives.
Subject: Community Safety
Recognizing the continuum of opportunities for third parties to prevent and respond to sexual assault and dating violence on a college campus.
PALMER, Jane E
Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Vol. 18 no. 1, 2016, p.1-18.)
Considers prosocial helping behaviours before, during or after sexual assault or dating abuse.
No 1. Gating alleys to reduce crime: a meta-analysis and realist synthesis.
SIDEBOTTOM, Aiden; TOMPSON, Lisa; BULLOCK, Karen; TILLEY, Nick; BOWERS, Kate; JOHNSON, Shane D
What works: crime reduction systematic review series.
Ryton College of Policing 2015 63p. figs., tabs., bibliog.
INTERNET RESOURCE
Link to full text: http://library.college.police.uk/docs/college-of-policing/1-Gating-Alleys-FINAL-with-copyright-statement-08-03-16(005).pdf
Many buildings in the UK have some form of alley as a means of access. A longstanding criticism of urban alleyways is their association with crime, incivilities and undesirable behaviours, from drug dealing and prostitution to dog fouling and littering. The focus of this review is on a situational crime prevention (SCP) technique known as "alley gating". This involves the use of lockable gates, usually made of steel or iron, which are designed to restrict entry to an alley or network of alleys thereby controlling access to potential crime targets. Its aims are to 1. Systematically review the evidence on whether alley gates are an effective crime reduction method; 2. Identify the causal mechanisms through which alley gates are expected to reduce crime and the conditions under which alley gates have been found to be effective, ineffective and/or to produce unintended negative effects and 3. Review information on the costs and implementation of alley gates. This review does not cover 'gated communities' which are related to, but distinct from, alley gates.
Subject: Computer Crimes
Introduction to cybercrime: computer crimes, laws, and policing in the 21st century.
HILL, Joshua; MARION, Nancy
Praeger Security International
Santa Barbara Praeger 2016 304p.
ISBN: 9781440832741
INTERNET RESOURCE
http://www.dawsonera.com/depp/reader/protected/external/AbstractView/S9781440832741
This book provides a summary of the history, development and efforts to combat cybercrime in international, national, state, and local government. It covers history of cybercrime, types, frequency and amounts of cybercrime, law enforcement, cyberterrorism and terrorists online, cyberwar and domestic and international response.
Preventing crime online: Identifying determinants of online preventive behaviors using structural equation modeling and canonical correlation analysis.
REYNS, Bradford W; RANDA, Ryan; HENSON, Billy
Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Vol. 18 no. 1, 2016, p.38-59.)
Examining relationships between online victimization, online exposure, online communication behaviours and online prevention in Canada.
Extracting evidence from the cloud.
ROZANSKI, Shahaf
Intersec (Vol. 26 no. 2, February 2016, p.30-31.)
Examines legal aspects of obtaining and analysing forensic evidence from the private cloud.
Challenges in digital forensics.
VINCZE, Eva E
Police Practice and Research (Vol. 17 no. 2, April 2016, p183-194.)
View full text (via Athens): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15614263.2015.1128163
Examines the challenges including the variety of electronic devices, amount of data produced, the absence of standard practices and guidelines for analyzing data, the lack qualified personnel to perform investigations and the lack of resources to provide on-going training.
Subject: Confidence in the Police
Comparative study of satisfaction with the police in the United States and Australia.
DAI, Mengyan; JIANG, Xin
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology (Vol. 49 no. 1, 2016, p.30-52.)
View full text (via Athens): http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004865814545684
A series of comparisons show a substantial similarity across statistical models for Cincinnati and Queensland, suggesting a general framework of citizens’ satisfaction with the police could be generalized for other countries.
Disentangling the myth about citizen participation in collaborative work with police: The difference between general citizens and citizen volunteers.
LEE, Jae-Seung; ZHAO, Jihong Solomon
Policing: an International Journal (Vol. 39 no. 1, 2016, p.127-144.)
View full text (via authorised IP): http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/PIJPSM-07-2015-0089
A survey in Houston, Texas, found that volunteers’ attitudes toward the police and satisfaction with the police services were higher than general citizens even though their victimization experiences, fear of crime, perceived neighbourhood disorders were higher than others.
Is bad stronger than good? Impact of police-citizen encounters on public satisfaction with police.
LI, Yudu; REN, Ling; LUO, Fei
Policing: an International Journal (Vol. 39 no. 1, 2016, p.109-126.)
View full text (via authorised IP): http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/PIJPSM-05-2015-0058
A telephone survey of 1,143 Houston residents in 2012 found that negative-contact variables have stronger influences than the positive-contact variables on satisfaction with the police.
Vietnamese Australians' perceptions of the trustworthiness of police.
MCKERNAN, Helen; WEBER, Leanne
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology (Vol. 49 no. 1, 2016, p.9-29.)
View full text (via Athens): http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004865814554308
Reports on key factors that influence Vietnamese Australians' perceptions of police trustworthiness using reputation, performance, appearance and accountability.
Modelling public confidence of the police: how perceptions of the police differ between neighborhoods in a city.
PERKINS, Mike
Police Practice and Research (Vol. 17 no. 2, April 2016, p113-125.)
View full text (via Athens): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15614263.2015.1128155
This research in York, UK, finds that even in a city that is relatively small, the factors which most affect an individual’s views of the police can vary wildly depending on perception of their local area.
Relationships between police performance and public confidence: a case study of Thailand.
SAHAPATTANA, Prapon; COBKIT, Sutham
Police Practice and Research (Vol. 17 no. 2, April 2016, p171-182.)
View full text (via Athens): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15614263.2015.1124766
A survey of 9000 Thai people found that attitudes toward crime suppression and prevention had the strongest correlations with confidence attitudes in police.
Subject: Crime Analysis
Spatial patterns of violent crimes and neighborhood characteristics in Changchun, China.
LIU, Daqian; SONG, Wei; XIU, Chunliang
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology (Vol. 49 no. 1, 2016, p.53-72.)
View full text (via Athens): http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004865814547133
The risk of violent crimes is found to be strongly concentrated in the central city area. Neighbourhood socioeconomic, demographic, especially land use characteristics are effective in accounting for the spatial variation in the distribution of violent crimes across the city of Changchun
Subject: Crime Prevention
On the deterrent effect of stop, question, and frisk.
APEL, Robert
Criminology and Public Policy (Vol. 15 no. 1, 2016, p.57-66.)
View full text (via Athens): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1745-9133.12175
Discusses the recent study by Weisburd, et.al. and expresses concern that the value of other elements of policing hotspots has to been fully taken into consideration, and also that the tactic may discourage the presence of law abiding citizens which will reduce criminal opportunities and may make victims reluctant to report crimes.
Foot-in-the-door technique, crime, and the responsive bystander: A field experiment.
GUEGUEN, Nicolas; MARTIN, Angelique; SILONE, Fabien; PASCUAL, Alexandre
Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Vol. 18 no. 1, 2016, p.60-68.)
This research finds that more bystanders intervened in the "foot in the door" condition to stop a theft in a public place (84%) than in a control condition (47%) in the same location. It argues that social responsibility activation explains these results.
Gating and residential robbery.
JACOBS, Bruce A; ADDINGTON, Lynn A
Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Vol. 18 no. 1, 2016, p.19-37.)
Analyses the U.S. National Crime Victimisation Survey and finds there is no significant difference in robbery rates between gated and non-gated complexes.
What works, what doesn't, what's constitutional? The problem with assessing an unconstitutional police practice.
SWEETEN, Gary
Criminology and Public Policy (Vol. 15 no. 1, 2016, p.67-73.)
View full text (via Athens): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1745-9133.12176
Comments on the recent study by Weisburd, et.al. and asks whether "what works" is all that matters and discusses police-community relations given the constitutional violations that the program imposes on minorities.
Do stop, question, and frisk practices deter crime? Evidence at microunits of space and time
WEISBURD, David; WOODITCH, Alese; WEISBURD, Sarit; YANG, Sue-Ming
Criminology and Public Policy (Vol. 15 no. 1, 2016, p.31-56.)
View full text (via Athens): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1745-9133.12172
This research in New York City suggest that “stop, question and frisk” practices at crime hot spots produce a significant, though modest deterrent effect on crime.
Subject: Crime Scene Examination
Crime scene staging dynamics in homicide cases.
PETTLER, Laura G
Taylor and Francis 2015 416p. figs., bibliog.
ISBN: 9781498711197
INTERNET RESOURCE
http://www.dawsonera.com/depp/reader/protected/external/AbstractView/S9781498711197
People who commit murder sometimes pose or reposition victims, weapons, and evidence to make it look like events happened in a different way to what actually occurred. This book provides a methodology of identifying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating the evidence of each case by learning to marry the physical evidence to the behavioral evidence. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing behavioral red flags which are often present in staged crime scenes and describes various types of crime scene staging behavioral patterns.
Subject: Criminal Behaviour
Journey to murder: examining the correlates of criminal mobility in sexual homicide.
MARTINEAU, Melissa; BEAUREGARD, Eric
Police Practice and Research (Vol. 17 no. 1, February 2016, p68-83.)
View full text (via Athens): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15614263.2014.994215
Finds that sexual murderers who engage in intra-crime travel tend to use a vehicle during the offence, target adults involved in the sex trade and move the body post murder.
Crime scene staging dynamics in homicide cases.
PETTLER, Laura G
Taylor and Francis 2015 416p. figs., bibliog.
ISBN: 9781498711197
INTERNET RESOURCE
Link to full text: http://www.dawsonera.com/depp/reader/protected/external/AbstractView/S9781498711197
People who commit murder sometimes pose or reposition victims, weapons, and evidence to make it look like events happened in a different way to what actually occurred. This book provides a methodology of identifying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating the evidence of each case by learning to marry the physical evidence to the behavioural evidence. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing behavioural red flags which are often present in staged crime scenes and describes various types of crime scene staging behavioural patterns.
Cooling hot property? An assessment of the impact of property marking on residential burglary crime reduction, crime displacement or diffusion of benefits and public confidence.
RAPHAEL, IAIN
PHD Thesis, University of Portsmouth
2015 276p. figs., tabs., bibliog.
INTERNET RESOURCE
Link to full text: http://library.college.police.uk/docs/theses/RAPHAEL-Cooling-Hot-Property-KP-Final-2015.pdf
This thesis examines the impact of traceable liquid property marking strategies on reducing residential burglary and other acquisitive crime. 10 trial sites, each of 500 households, were selected in London, 2 each in 5 boroughs. These trial sites all had both a persistent and long term chronic residential burglary offence rate. Residential homes in the areas were visited by a police officer of PCSO and property marked using a unique traceable liquid property marking solution. Signs were displayed, and use made of press and media, to tell people that they were entering a property marked area. Similar control areas were establish in each borough. The study deduced that there was a 45% reduction in residential burglaries in the control area. When the trial areas were widened to include a 750m displacement zone then the results indicated a 23% reduction in residential burglaries. The study concludes that traceable liquid property marking is highly effective at reducing residential burglary.
How offenders make decisions: evidence of rationality.
STEELE, Rachael
British Journal of Community Justice (Vol. 13 no. 3, Winter 2015, p.7-20.)
Interviews with 46 offenders of mixed offending backgrounds shows that rationality varies between individuals and within offence types, though there are suggestions about how motivation can affect decision making.
Subject: Criminal Investigation
Prospective detective: developing the effective detective of the future.
WESTERA, Nina J; KEBBELL, Mark R; MILNE, Becky; GREEN, Tracey
Policing and Society (Vol. 26 no. 2, 2016, p.197-209.)
View full text (via Athens): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2014.942845
Interviews with Australian and New Zealand experienced detectives considered retention and recruitment, the rapid growth of technology, training, ongoing professional development and accountability.
Towards a more effective detective.
WESTERA, Nina J; KEBBELL, Mark R; MILNE, Becky; GREENE, Tracey
Policing and Society (Vol. 26 no. 1, 2016, p.1-17.)
View full text (via Athens): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2014.912647
A survey of New Zealand and Australian police detectives found that communication skills were the most important attribute, followed by motivation and thoroughness.
Subject: Criminal Justice
Expunging juvenile criminal histories: towards a ‘clean break’?
STONE, Nigel
Youth Justice (Vol. 16 no. 1, April 2016, p.71-81.)
View full text (via Athens): http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473225415623667