What's Known About Deterrent Effects of Police Activities.

Abstract

Several techniques have been used to estimate the effect of police activities on the incidence of crime, including: (1) cross-sectional analysis of reported crime rates in various jurisdictions as compared to resources devoted to the totality of police functions or certain police functions, (2) longitudinal analysis of a time series of crime incidence in several jurisdictions or in a single jurisdiction where police deployment or operations changed over time, and (3) experimental manipulation of the nature or amount of police activities. Nearly every study concerning deterrence has been subjected to criticism for one or more faults, such as failure to distinguish between true and reported crime rates, failure to specify or maintain the experimental conditions, apparent errors in the data, or confusion between cause and effect.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA040854

Entities

People

  • Jan M. Chaiken

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Age Groups
  • Crime
  • Criminals
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Processing
  • Deployment
  • Deterrence
  • Imprisonment
  • Information Systems
  • Law Enforcement
  • Manpower
  • Measurement
  • New York
  • Personnel Management
  • Police
  • Statistics
  • Surveys

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