Author: Ryan David WoolfordPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Evaluating the Impact of Homicide on Property Value in Los Angeles
Author: Ryan David WoolfordEvaluating the Impact of Proposition 47 on Property Crimes in Los Angeles Using Causal Inference Methods
Author: Bryan DingPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This thesis paper examines the causal effects of California Proposition 47, a criminal justice reform measure passed in 2014, on property crime rates in Los Angeles and other major cities in California. Proposition 47 aimed to reduce prison overcrowding by reclassifying certain nonviolent offenses as misdemeanors and reallocating resources to education, mental health, and drug treatment programs. Existing research on Proposition 47's impact on property crime rates has yielded mixed results, primarily due to limitations inherent in observational studies. To overcome these limitations, this study employs a causal inference approach, especially focusing on difference in difference and synthetic control methods. A general reweighting approach to causal inference with time-series cross-sectional (TSCS) data from Chad Hazlet and Yiqing Xu is used too, including methods such as mean-balancing and kernel-balancing. We analyzed data from the FBI crime database spanning 11 years and covering 23 cities, focusing on property crimes such as burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft. The synthetic control method allows for the estimation of the policy intervention's effect by creating a synthetic control group that closely matches the characteristics of the treated group, addressing confounding factors. The study finds evidence that Propo- sition 47 increased property crime in Los Angeles and multiple major cities in California, supported by the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) calculations and graphical representations. However, these conclusions rely on the assumptions made in the causal inference framework. Additionally, other studies indicate that Proposition 47 achieved de- carceration and reduced racial prejudices within the judicial system, emphasizing the need to consider broader social impacts. The results of this study should be interpreted with caution, and further exploration of Proposition 47's long-term effects on the criminal justice system, communities, and individuals is necessary.
Global Study on Homicide 2013
Author: United NationsPublisher: UN
ISBN: 9789211482720
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
The Global Study on Homicide 2013 is based on comprehensive data from more than 200 countries/territories, and examines and analyses patterns and trends in homicide at the global, regional, national and sub-national levels. Such analysis is fundamental to understanding the various factors and dynamics that drive homicide, so that measures can be developed to reduce violent crime. The Study provides a typology of homicide, including homicide related to crime, coexistence-related homicide, and socio-political homicide. The nature of crime in several countries emerging from conflict, the role of various mechanisms in killing, and the response of the criminal justice system to homicide are also analyzed. A further chapter examines homicide at the sub-national level, and includes analysis at the city-level for selected global cities.
Blue
Author: Joe DomanickPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451641109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
American policing is in crisis. Here, award-winning investigative journalist Joe Domanick reveals the troubled history of American policing over the past quarter century. He begins in the early 1990s with the beating of Rodney King and the L.A. riots, when the Los Angeles Police Department was caught between a corrupt and racist past and the demands of a rapidly changing urban population. Across the country, American cities faced similar challenges to law and order. In New York, William J. Bratton was spearheading the reorganization of the New York City Transit Police and later the 35,000-strong New York Police Department. His efforts resulted in a dramatic decrease in crime, yet introduced highly controversial policing strategies. In 2002, when Bratton was named the LAPD's new chief, he implemented the lessons learned in New York to change a department that previously had been impervious to reform. Blue ends in 2015 with the LAPD on its unfinished road to reform, as events in Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore, and Ferguson, Missouri, raise alarms about the very strategies Bratton pioneered, and about aggressive racial profiling and the militarization of police departments throughout the United States. Domanick tells his story through the lives of the people who lived it. Along with Bratton, he introduces William Parker, the legendary LAPD police chief; Tom Bradley, the first black mayor of Los Angeles; and Charlie Beck, the hard-nosed ex-gang cop who replaced Bratton as LAPD chief. The result is both intimate and expansive: a gripping narrative that asks big questions about what constitutes good and bad policing and how best to prevent crime, control police abuse, and ease tensions between the police and the powerless. Blue is not only a page-turning read but an essential addition to our scholarship.--Adapted from book jacket.
Sociological Abstracts
Author: Oversight Hearing on Full Employment
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Employment OpportunitiesPublisher:
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Category : Full employment policies
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Research Conference on Violence and Homicide in Hispanic Communities
Author: Jess F. KrausPublisher:
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Category : Hispanic Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Deterrence and the Death Penalty
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309254167
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. Researchers have reached widely varying, even contradictory, conclusions. Some studies have concluded that the threat of capital punishment deters murders, saving large numbers of lives; other studies have concluded that executions actually increase homicides; still others, that executions have no effect on murder rates. Commentary among researchers, advocates, and policymakers on the scientific validity of the findings has sometimes been acrimonious. Against this backdrop, the National Research Council report Deterrence and the Death Penalty assesses whether the available evidence provides a scientific basis for answering questions of if and how the death penalty affects homicide rates. This new report from the Committee on Law and Justice concludes that research to date on the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates is not useful in determining whether the death penalty increases, decreases, or has no effect on these rates. The key question is whether capital punishment is less or more effective as a deterrent than alternative punishments, such as a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Yet none of the research that has been done accounted for the possible effect of noncapital punishments on homicide rates. The report recommends new avenues of research that may provide broader insight into any deterrent effects from both capital and noncapital punishments.
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