NCJ Number
246126
Journal
Translational Criminology Dated: Fall 2013 Pages: 1-32
Date Published
2013
Length
32 pages
Annotation
This online issue - which continues the journal's efforts to promote knowledge exchange to shape criminal justice research, practice, and policy - contains articles on the use of the analysis of patterns in policing, the implications of the science of bias for police training, whether crime analysis is evidence-based, the merging of computing and crime science, and the foundation of an evidence-based justice system.
Abstract
"Translating the Analysis of Patterns Into Police Practice: An Application of a New Spatial Point Pattern Test" features a description of the Andersen spatial point pattern test, which identifies changes or differences in the spatial patterns of any phenomenon, including crime. "This Is Not Your Grandparents' Prejudice: The Implications of the Modern Science of Bias for Police Training" features the content of research that examined implicit biases linked to ethnicity and race, implications of this research for police training is examined. Is Crime Analysis "Evidence-Based?" points out that crime analysis is a scientific tool that achieves its intended purpose; however, it is the interventions based on crime analysis that must be closely judged as evidence-based in relation to achieving their goals. "Merging Computing and Crime Science: The Development of a Web-Crawling Tool To Investigate Cybercrime" reports on the development of an innovative tool called CENE (Child Exploitation Network Extraction), which is a custom-written Web-crawler designed in collaboration with criminologists, a computer scientist, and a law enforcement agency. CENE can point to Web sites and pages that are relevant, and even rank them according to relevance. It focuses on Web sites that contain both harmful content and Web sites that are actually visited by users of child pornography. "Case of Places" examines how research might be more institutionalized into daily police practices.