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Caplan, J.M., Kennedy, L.S. & Piza, E.L.(2018). Risk-Based Policing: Evidence-Based Crime Prevention with Big Data and Spatial Analytics. University of California Press.

Risk-based policing is a research advancement that improves public safety, and its applications prevent crime specifically by managing crime risks. In Risk-Based Policing, the authors analyze case studies from a variety... Learn More

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Feng, S., Piza, E. L., Kennedy, L. W., & Caplan, J. M. (2018). Aggravating effects of alcohol outlet types on street robbery and aggravated assault in New York City. Journal of Crime and Justice.

The present study uses Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM) to analyze how nine different alcohol outlet types differentially influence the likelihood of aggravated assault and street robbery at micro-level places in... Learn More

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Berryessa, C.M., & Caplan, J.M. (2020). Cognitive and affective processing of risk information: A Survey experiment on risk-based decision-making related to crime and public safety. Frontiers in Psychology.

The current study, using a multi-factorial survey experiment with a sample of the general public (N=800), investigates if and how types of risk information on crime and public safety, such... Learn More

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Clear, T. R. & Montagnet, C. L. (2020). Impact of incarceration on community public safety and public health. In Improving Public Health Through Correctional Health Care. 2nd ed, Greifinger, R. (ed). NY: Springer.

The purpose of the paper is to provide data and theory to support three propositions: Incarceration rates have grown in concentrated ways, especially effecting poor minority males who come from... Learn More

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Zgoba, K., & Clear, T. R. (2020). A review of the reality of violent criminal offending and the administration of justice. Criminal Justice Policy Review.

Policy makers have recently been exploring methods to reduce incarceration. Most current proposals for reducing incarceration exclude people in prison who were convicted of violent crimes. This article considers violence... Learn More

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Clear, T. R. (2020). Reinventing punitive justice and the community justice system. Asian Journal of Criminology, 15, 185–193.

Statistics regarding prisons are taken from various reports of the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the US Department of Justice. With 50 states following 50 different patterns, there is much... Learn More

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Clear, T. R., & Frost, N. (2020). Coercive mobility in an era of declining prison populations. In Criminal justice theory: Explanations and effects, Johnson, C.L., Chouhy, C., & Cochran, J. (eds). Advances in criminological theory, 26. New York: Routledge.

Criminal Justice Theory: Explanations and Effects undertakes a systematic study of theories of the criminal justice system, which historically have received very little attention from scholars. This is a glaring omission... Learn More

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Rengifo, A.F., Avila, L.*, Juan D. Gélvez, J.D., Ramírez, L., & Mora, P. (2019). Judicial treatment and pre-trial detention in a sample of arraignment hearings in Bogotá and Cali. Cuadernos de Economia 38:581-608.

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Rengifo, A. F. & Marmolejo, L. (2020). From Action to Representation: Indicators of Defense Performance in a Sample of Pretrial Hearings in Colombia. [in Spanish]. Latin American Law Review, No. 04, 1-23.

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Rengifo, A. F., and Slocum, L. (2020). The identity prism: How racial identification frames perceptions of police contact, legitimacy and effectiveness. Law & Social Inquiry.

.This article examines the role of racial identity in the configuration of opinions about the police. We argue that racial identity links social context to individual valuations of law enforcement,... Learn More

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