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Concentration of personal and household crimes in England and Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2010

ANDROMACHI TSELONI ,
IOANNIS NTZOUFRAS ,
ANNA NICOLAOU  and
KEN PEASE
ANDROMACHI TSELONI
Affiliation:
Division of Criminology, Public Health and Policy Studies, Nottingham Trent University, Burton street, Nottingham NG1 4BU, UK email: andromachi.tseloni@ntu.ac.uk
IOANNIS NTZOUFRAS
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, Athens Economic University, Patission 76, 10434 Athens, Greece email: ntzoufras@aueb.gr
ANNA NICOLAOU
Affiliation:
Department of Business Administration, University of Macedonia, Egantia 156, 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece email: nicolaou@uom.gr
KEN PEASE
Affiliation:
Visiting Professor, Midlands Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Loughborough, 19 Withypool Drive, Stockport SK2 6DT, UK email: k.pease@lboro.ac.uk
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Abstract

Crime is disproportionally concentrated in few areas. Though long established, there remains uncertainty about the reasons for variation in the concentration of similar crime (repeats) or different crime (multiples). Wholly neglected have been composite crimes when more than one crime types coincide as parts of a single event. The research reported here disentangles area crime concentration into repeats, multiple and composite crimes. The results are based on estimated bivariate zero-inflated Poisson regression models with covariance structure which explicitly account for crime rarity and crime concentration. The implications of the results for criminological theorizing and as a possible basis for more equitable police funding are discussed.

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European Journal of Applied Mathematics , Volume 21 , Issue 4-5: Criminality , October 2010 , pp. 325 - 348
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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