RT Article
T1 Environmental Factors Influencing Urban Homicide Clearance Rates: A Spatial Analysis of New York City
JF Homicide studies
VO 25
IS 4
SP 313
OP 334
A1 Kennedy, Leslie W. 1951-
A2 Caplan, Joel M. 1980-
A2 Piza, Eric L.
A2 Thomas, Amanda L.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1774532085
AB In this paper, we explore the conditions under which clearance rates improve by looking at the experience across New York City. Using one agency provides a control on the administrative differences that appear across other jurisdictions that have been studied, usually through cross-national analysis. Our analysis uses Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM) to identify environmental features that relate to closed versus open homicide cases using two years of New York City Police Department (NYPD) data. This analysis is supplemented with an investigation of precinct-wide social structure variables to examine how context matters in influencing closure rates.
K1 Crime Mapping
K1 Police investigation
K1 Risk Terrain Modeling
K1 homicide clearance
K1 Prevention
DO 10.1177/1088767920976183