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Repeat Complaint Address Policing: Two Field Experiments in Minneapolis, 1985-1987
Principal Investigator(s): Sherman, Lawrence W.; Gartin, Patrick R.; Buerger, Michael E.
Summary: A leading sociological theory of crime is the "routine activities" approach (Cohen and Felson, 1979). The premise of this theory is that the rate of occurrence of crime is affected by the convergence in time and space of three elements: motivated offenders, suitable targets, and the absence of guardianship against crime. The purpose of this study was to provide empirical evidence for the routine activities theory by investigating criminal data on places. This study deviates from... (view details)
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09788
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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) , the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention .
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