Crime rate studies

Social Entropy Theory as an Explicit Approach to Assessment of Crime and Correlates of Crime in Europe at Macro Societal Level

Date Published

December 2006

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ

Comparing Crime Rates Between Undocumented Immigrants, Legal Immigrants, and Native-born US Citizens in Texas

Date Published

December 2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

MEDIA CONSTRUCTION OF CRIME REVISITED: MEDIA TYPES, CONSUMER CONTEXTS, AND FRAMES OF CRIME AND JUSTICE

Date Published

2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Testing Deterrence and Incapacitation as Crime Control Mechanisms: A Refinement of the Hypothesis

Date Published

1997

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Artifact in Pretest-Posttest Designs - How It Can Mistakenly Make Delinquency Programs Look Effective

Date Published

1980

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Including Tourists in Crime Rate Calculations for New Casino Jurisdictions: What Difference Does It Make?

Date Published

2000

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Producing Official Crimes - Verified Crime Reports as Measures of Police Output

Date Published

1980

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Trajectories of Crime at Places: A Longitudinal Study of Street Segments in the City of Seattle

Date Published

May 2004

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Effect of Casino Gambling on Crime in New Casino Jurisdictions

Date Published

2000

Publication Type

Survey

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Community Power, the Urban Agenda, and Crime Policy

Date Published

1981

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Why the Drop in Crime?

Date Published

March 2000

Publication Type

Issue Overview

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Extracommunity Dynamics and the Ecology of Delinquency

Date Published

1987

Publication Type

Research (Theoretical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Neighborhoods, Acculturation, Crime, and Victimization Among Hispanics: The Cross-Fertilization of the Sociologies of Immigration and Crime

Date Published

February 2011

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Strain and Violence: Testing a General Strain Theory Model of Community Violence

Date Published

November 2003

Publication Type

Research (Theoretical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Family, Acquaintance, and Stranger Homicide: Alternative Procedures for Rate Calculations

Date Published

1987

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Fear in the Neighborhoods - An Investigation of the Impact of Crime

Date Published

1980

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Undocumented Immigration, Crime, and Recidivism

2019-R2-CX-0058

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2019

$396,194

Crime and Victimization on the US-Mexico Border: A Comparison of Legal Residents, Illegal Residents and Native-Born Citizens

2019-R2-CX-0054

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2019

$521,702

New Directions in Research on Immigration and Crime

2019-R2-CX-0056

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2019

$713,114

Illegal Immigration, Immigration Enforcement Policies, and American Citizens Victimization Risk

2019-R2-CX-0057

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2019

$673,685

Neighborhood Crime Survey: An Examination of the Relationship Between Immigration and Victimization

2019-R2-CX-0055

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2019

$1,020,679

Economical Crime Control: Perspectives from Both Sides of the Ledger

December 2011

Series

Research for the Real World

The surge in incarceration since 1980 has been fueled in part by the mistaken belief that the population can be divided neatly into "good guys" and "bad guys." In fact, crime rates are not determined by the number of at-large criminals, any more than farm production is determined by the number of farmers. Crime is a choice, a choice that is influenced by available opportunities as much as by character. This perspective, drawn from economic theory, supports a multi-faceted approach to crime control. Dr.

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