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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Center for Law & Justice

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© 2009-2011 RCPS

Updated November 27, 2011

Books/Articles  |  Reports  |  Briefs  |  Handouts/Brochures

 

Newly Accepted (in press) Papers

  • Caplan, J. M. (in press). Mapping the spatial influence of crime correlates: A comparison of operationalization schemes and implications for crime analysis and CJ practice. Cityscape. 

  • Kennedy, L. W. with J Christian. (in press). Secondary Narratives in the Aftermath of Crime: Defining Family Members' Relationships with Prisoners. Punishment and Society.

 

Selected Publications
 

Leslie W. Kennedy:

 

  • with Caplan, J. M. (2011). Risk Terrains and Crime Emergence. In J. McGloin, C. Sullivan, and L. W. Kennedy. Crime Emergence. NY: Routledge.

  • with Joel M. Caplan & Eric L. Piza. (2010, online first). Risk Clusters, Hotspots, and Spatial Intelligence: Risk Terrain Modeling as an Algorithm for Police Resource Allocation Strategies. Journal of Quantitative Criminology.

  • with D. Forde, 1990 "Routine Activities and Crime : An Analysis of Victimization in Canada." Criminology, V. 28 (1): 101-15. cited as a "classic" in environmental criminology in Andresen, M.A., P.J. Brantingham, and J.B. Kinney [eds.] (2010). Classics in Environmental Criminology. Co-published: Burnaby, BC, SFU Publications and Boca Raton, FL, Taylor & Francis.

  • with Erin Van Brunschot. (2009), The Risk in Crime. NY: Rowman and Littlefield.

  • with Erin Van Brunschot. (2008). Risk Balance and Security. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

  • with Stephen Baron & David Forde. (2007). “Disputatiousness, Aggressiveness and Victimization Among Street Youth”. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice: An Interdisciplinary Journal,  5, 411 - 425.

  • with Cynthia Lum & Alison Sherley. (2006). “Are Counter-terrorism Strategies Effective? The Results of a Campbell Review on Counter-terrorism Evaluation Research”. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 2(4). [pdf]

  • with Erika Poulsen. (2004). “Using Dasymetric Mapping for Spatially Aggregated Crime Data and Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis”. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 20(3), 243-262. [pdf]

  • with Alison Sherley. (2005). “Is there a role for public security in criminal justice”. The Criminologist.

  • with Vincent Sacco. (2001). The Criminal Event: Perspectives in Space and Time (2nd Edition). Wadsworth Publishing.

The Risk in Crime

 

 

 

 

 

Joel M. Caplan:

 

  • with Kennedy, L. W., & Petrossian, G. (2010, online first). Police-monitored CCTV cameras in Newark, NJ: A quasi-experimental test of crime deterrence. Journal of Experimental Criminology.  

  • with Moreto, W. D., & Kennedy, L. W. (2011). Forecasting Global Maritime Piracy Utilizing the Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM) Approach to Spatial Risk Assessment. In L. W. Kennedy and E. F. McGarrell (Eds.), Crime and Terrorism Risk: Studies in Criminology and Criminal Justice. New York: Routledge.

  • with Leslie W. Kennedy & Joel Miller. (2011). Risk terrain modeling: Brokering criminological theory and GIS methods for crime forecasting. Justice Quarterly.

  • with Leslie W. Kennedy. (2010). Risk Terrain Modeling Manual: Theoretical Framework and Technical Steps of Spatial Risk Assessment. [pdf]

  • with Matejkowski, J., & Cullen, S. W. (2010). The impact of severe mental illness on parole decisions: Considering integration within a prison setting. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 37(9): 1005-1029. [abstract]

  • with Susan Kinnevy. (2010). National surveys of state paroling authorities: Models of service delivery. Federal Probation, 74(1). [html]

  • (2010). GIS for Public Safety: An Annotated Guide to ArcGIS Tools and Procedures. [pdf]

  • (2010). Parole release decisions: Impact of victim input on a representative sample of inmates. Journal of Criminal Justice. [html]

  • (2010). Parole release decisions: Impact of positive and negative victim and non-victim input on a representative sample of parole-eligible inmates. Violence and Victims.

  • with Mario Paparozzi. (2009). A profile of paroling authorities in America: The strange bedfellows of politics and professionalism. The Prison Journal. [pdf]

  • with Jeff Mellow & Melinda Schlager. (2008). Using GIS to evaluate post-release prisoner services in Newark, New Jersey. Journal of Criminal Justice, 36(5). [pdf]

  • (2007). What factors affect parole? A review of empirical research. Federal Probation, 71(1), 16-19. [html]

  • (2006). Parole system anomie: Conflicting models of casework and surveillance. Federal Probation, 70(3), 32-36. [html]

  • with Brendan Carr, John Pryor, & Charles Branas. (2006). Benchmarking pre-hospital care times for trauma: A meta-analysis. Prehospital Emergency Care, 10(2), 198-206. [pdf]

  • (2003). Police cynicism: Police survival tool? Police Journal, 76(4), 304-313. [pdf]

 

 

 

Selected Reports

  • National Surveys of State Parole Boards: Models of Service Delivery. 2008. [pdf]

  • Findings from the APAI International Survey of Releasing Authorities. 2008. [pdf]

 

Issue Papers and Research Briefs

Risk Terrain Modeling

Global Security

  • Emerging Threats 21: Risk Terrains and Global Threats. 2009. [pdf]

  • Global Risk Assessment: The Search for a Common Methodology. 2010. [pdf]

  • Global Supply Chain Risk. 2010. [pdf]

  • Climate Change, Hunger and Food Security. 2010. [pdf]

  • Crime Risk and Vulnerability. 2010. [pdf]

  • Developing Composite Measures in Global Risk Assessment. 2010. [pdf]

  • Spatial Analysis of Terrorism. 2010. [pdf]

Community Security

  • Police-monitored CCTV cameras in Newark, NJ: Placement choice and their impact on street-level crime incidents. 2009. [pdf]

  • Gang-related graffiti locations and relationships to certain types of crimes. 2009. [pdf]

  • A Risk Based Outline for Intelligence-Led Policing. 2009. [pdf]  

 

 

Handouts and Brochures

  • GIS Mapping for Prisoner Reentry [pdf]

    Compendium brochure to a presentation given at the U.S. Department of Labor Prisoner Re-Entry Initiative Workforce Development Peer-to-Peer Meeting, Nov. 14, 2008.