Index

Methods of Criminology and Criminal Justice Research

ISBN: 978-1-78769-866-6, eISBN: 978-1-78769-865-9

ISSN: 1521-6136

Publication date: 26 August 2019

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(2019), "Index", Deflem, M. and Silva, D.M.D. (Ed.) Methods of Criminology and Criminal Justice Research (Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance, Vol. 24), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 195-200. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1521-613620190000024018

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INDEX

Index

Access to information (ATI)
, 34

Adaptation
, 190

Adolescents
, 119

Advanced information technologies
, 181

Advocacy research
, 143–144

Age-graded life events on risk of elder financial exploitation
, 109–110

Agency records
, 166

challenges in human trafficking research
, 171–172

to estimating prevalence
, 172–175

research on human trafficking using
, 169–172

types
, 167–169

Agency-based male sex workers
, 88

Alexa Traffic Ranks
, 93–94

Alliances
, 59

networks
, 48

“American Dream”
, 74–75

Arrest records
, 50–51

Assaults
, 72

Assets
, 104

ATI /FOI laws
, 34–35, 37, 41–42

Audio-based online material
, 181

BeautifulSoup
, 182

“Big data” phenomenon
, 187

Black Widow
, 182

Boston Special Youth Project
, 50

Campus Quality of Life Survey (CQLS)
, 74

Capture–recapture methods
, 169–170

Cataloging techniques
, 94–95

Change scores
, 127–130

pre-and post-parkland
, 123–127

Clique percolation method (CPM)
, 55

Clique-based approaches
, 55

Co-offending
, 50–51

Coercive control
, 79

Cohesion–delinquency relationship
, 57

Collaborations
, 187–188

between agencies and researchers
, 169

Commercial sexual exploitation (CSE)
, 169

CSE/prostitution
, 169

Community

detection
, 53–54

partnerships
, 136

Community-based participatory research (CBPR)
, 136–138

challenges and consequences
, 139–143

concentrated partner’s recruitment stage
, 139

lessons learning
, 143–145

process challenges
, 139–142

process consequences
, 142–143

research and battered immigrant women
, 138

Comprehensive School Safety Initiative (CSSI)
, 116

Conflict
, 71–72

gang
, 58

Conflict Tactics Scale 2 (CTS2)
, 71

Crawlers (see Web-crawlers)

Crime
, 8, 11, 41–42, 118–119, 128

going up in society
, 26

reporting patterns
, 8

rise in
, 23–26

survey
, 71, 73

trends in
, 22–23

victimization
, 70

Crime measurement

crime going up in society
, 26

data and analysis plan
, 13–14

future research implications
, 27–28

homicide data
, 18–20

overall crime trends
, 14–16

police “outputs”
, 20–22

police-recorded crime vs. estimates from victim surveys
, 10–13

police-recorded crimes
, 8–9

rise in crime or faulty wires
, 23–26

trends in violence and crime
, 22–23

trends in violence data
, 17–18

Crime Survey of England and Wales (CSEW)
, 9

methodological issues with
, 11–12

patterns of violence
, 18

recent trends in
, 13

as violent crime measurement
, 27

Crime-recording

practices
, 8

systems
, 14

Criminal

anthropology
, 1

assault
, 71

behavior
, 71

sciences
, 1

statistics
, 1–2

Criminal groups
, 48

dynamics
, 48–50

inter-group network dynamics
, 58–59

intra-group network dynamics
, 56–57

network approach to delineating group boundaries
, 53–55

network data
, 50–53

network perspective of delinquent groups
, 49–50

research on criminal group dynamics
, 56–59

Criminal justice
, 102

administration
, 1–2

FOI requests in criminal justice studies
, 41

stakeholders
, 171

system
, 72

Criminology
, 102

enterprise
, 2

FOI requests in
, 41–42

scholars
, 53

Cyberstalking
, 72

Data

analysis techniques
, 39

availability
, 172–173

new data collected by agencies
, 168

parsers (see Web-crawlers)

scrapers (see Web-crawlers)

sharing process
, 172–173

source selection
, 53

synthesizing
, 174–175

types and format
, 174

Delinquency
, 48, 56

Dominance hierarchies concept
, 58

Drug distribution networks
, 59

Dynamic sex work environment
, 86

Elder financial exploitation
, 102–103, 108–109

age-graded life events on risk of
, 109–110

chronology of study and methods
, 105–108

consequences
, 110–111

literature review
, 102–105

protective factors against
, 111

select findings from mixed methods approach
, 108–111

Electronic devices
, 119

Electronic wire-taps
, 51

Emoticons
, 189

Emotional neglect
, 169

Ethnographic observations
, 87–88

Existing data

analysis
, 166

for research purposes
, 172

Exponential random graph models
, 59

Extremism
, 181–182, 185–188

Extremist sentiment online
, 187

adaptation
, 190

collaborations
, 187–188

combinations
, 188–189

validation
, 189–190

Facebook
, 52

Family violence
, 169

Fear
, 118–119, 122

Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
, 103

Feminist

coalitions’ lobbying and education initiatives
, 70

researchers
, 73–74

scholars
, 70

scholarship
, 75

Field incident records
, 51

Financial exploitation
, 104

Forgery
, 104

Freedom of information requests (FOI)
, 34

challenges, barriers, and tricks of trade
, 37–40

requests in criminal justice studies
, 41

requests in criminology
, 41–42

requests in socio-legal studies
, 40

in social sciences
, 35–37

Funds
, 104

Gang conflict
, 58

Gang violence
, 59

Gay/bisexual male community
, 92

Global Positioning System
, 52

Google
, 93

Greater Manchester Police (GMP)
, 10

Grounded theory
, 39

Group boundaries, network approach to delineating
, 53–55

Group dynamics
, 48–49

Happiness Index
, 189

Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS)
, 10, 16

High-quality client services
, 141–142

Home Office Counting Rules (HOCR)
, 10

Homicide data
, 18–20

Human trafficking
, 166

challenges for using agency records in human trafficking research
, 171–172

previous research using agency records
, 169–172

Human Trafficking Reporting System (HTRS)
, 170

Immigrant-racialized women
, 138

Immigration detention and deportation
, 152

Immigration removal centers (IRCs)
, 152, 156, 161

Inter-group network dynamics
, 58–59

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
, 167

International CyberCrime Research Centre (ICCRC)
, 181

International Labour Organization (ILO)
, 170

International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Association (IGLA)
, 93–94

Internet
, 86, 92–93

shopping behavior
, 104

Interviewing male escorts (see also Male escort websites)
, 89

interview process
, 91–92

university administrative issues
, 90–91

working with sex workers’ community organizations
, 91

Interviews
, 87–88, 90

Intimate partner violence (IPV)
, 136

research requirements
, 138–139

Intra-group network dynamics
, 56–57

Islamic State (IS)
, 180

Jihadi material
, 181

Las Vegas shooting terrorist attacks
, 189

Law enforcement data
, 105


Machine learning algorithms
, 181, 187

Male escort websites (see also Interviewing male escorts)
, 92

accessing websites
, 94

cataloging techniques
, 94–95

Male independent escorting
, 87, 90–91

internet-based escorting
, 86

Male sex work research

interviewing male escorts
, 89–92

male escort websites
, 92–95

methods
, 86–89

Manchester attacks
, 189

Media effects
, 119

Methodology
, 1

reflection
, 172–175

techniques
, 53

Minimizing underreporting
, 72

multiple measures of victimization
, 76–78

supplementary open-ended questions
, 73–76

Mixed methods approach
, 108

age-graded life events on risk of elder financial exploitation
, 109–110

case study approach
, 105–106

consequences of elder financial exploitation
, 110–111

elder financial exploitation
, 108–109

protective factors against elder financial exploitation
, 111

reporting decisions of victims
, 109

Multiple measures of victimization
, 76–78

National Adult Protective Services Association (2016)
, 103

National Council on Aging (2017)
, 103

National Crime Recording Standard (NCRS)
, 10

National Crime Victimization survey (NCVS)
, 70, 76

National Crime Victimization Survey-Identity Theft Supplement (NCVS-ITS)
, 106–107

National Health and Medical Research Council
, 90

National Health Services (NHS)
, 9

National Institute of Justice
, 107

National Public Survey on White Collar Crime
, 106–107

National White Collar Crime Center
, 107

Nationalism
, 181

Network

approach to delineating group boundaries
, 53–55

data
, 50–53

methods
, 3, 48

perspective of delinquent groups
, 49–50

Off-line sexual assaults
, 77

Offender–victim relationships
, 50–51

“One victim, one crime” policy
, 10

Opinion mining (see Sentiment analysis)

Organized crime
, 48

Pan-ethnic group categories
, 78–79

PANAS-t
, 189

Parkland characteristics
, 120–121

Parkland effect
, 126

Partner physical violence
, 76

Pathways to Desistance study
, 169

Photo-elicitation method
, 155, 157

Photography
, 154, 156

Photovoice
, 152

challenges of using
, 157–161

picturing life after detention
, 153–157

Physical assault
, 70–71

Physical health
, 110–111

Physical neglect
, 169

Police crime-recording practices
, 9

Police records
, 51

Police-recorded crimes
, 8

in England and Wales
, 8–9

methodological issues
, 10–12

recent trends in
, 13

victim surveys estimation, vs.
, 10–13

Polyvictimization
, 77

Poverty
, 70

Progressive legislative reforms
, 70

“Prostitution” indicator
, 169

Public agency data
, 167

Quality of life
, 110–111

Radicalization process
, 187

Rape
, 70–71

Reporting behavior
, 108

Research failure
, 152–153

Respect Inc
, 90

Respondent-driven sampling
, 52

Retirement community
, 106, 110

Revenge pornography
, 76

Revised Sexual Experiences Survey (RSES)
, 71

Risk assessment tools
, 181

Risk factors
, 105, 108

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
, 42

SASA
, 189

School

avoidance
, 122

disorder
, 122

safety research and programming
, 116

School Crime Supplement to National Crime Victimization Survey School (NCVS-SCS)
, 119–120

School safety perceptions in aftermath of shooting

characteristics of Parkland
, 120–121

cross-sectional comparison in wave two
, 123

data and methods
, 121

differences in change scores pre-and post-parkland
, 123–127

literature review
, 118

measures
, 122–123

media effects
, 119

sample characteristics
, 121

sample differences in examination of change scores
, 127–130

shootings and student reactions
, 119–120

violence and fear
, 118–119

Self-report

studies
, 105

surveys
, 70, 78, 103

Seniors vs Crime (SvC)
, 106

SenticNet
, 189

Sentiment analysis
, 181, 185–187

effectiveness
, 188

with semi-parametric group-based modeling
, 189

SentiStrength
, 186–187, 189–190

SentiWordNet
, 189

Sex education
, 87

Sex trafficking sites
, 95

Sex workers

community organizations
, 91

non-governmental organizations
, 95

Sexual

abuse
, 169–170

assault
, 71, 76

compulsivity
, 87

harassment (see also Violence against women)
, 72, 76

intercourse
, 71

Sexualization
, 88–89, 92

Shootings and student reactions
, 119–120

Social

contagion process
, 58

context
, 88

desirability effects
, 78

media
, 52, 72, 87, 119

scientists
, 187–188

social sciences, FOI in
, 35–37

support services
, 70

theories
, 39

Social networks
, 53

analysis
, 42, 188

platforms
, 52

Social Science and Humanities Council (SSHRC)
, 139

“Sociological stalking” implications
, 159

Special weapons and tactics teams (SWAT teams)
, 41

Stakeholders
, 171

Stalking
, 70–72

Star rating system
, 93–94

Stigma
, 87

modes of
, 89

Stop and search data analysis
, 20–22

Street gang membership
, 90–91

Surveys
, 87–88

self-report
, 70, 78, 103

victim surveys estimation
, 10–13

Technology-facilitated coercive control
, 80

Technology-facilitated stalking
, 76–77

Temporal crime patterns
, 9

Terrorism
, 70, 185–188

The Dark Crawler (TDC)
, 182

keywords
, 184–185

number of domains
, 184

number of webpages
, 184

trusted domains
, 184

Traumatic behaviors
, 73

Trusted domains
, 184

Twitter
, 52

Underreporting
, 72

Unemployment
, 70

University of Missouri–St Louis Comprehensive School Safety Initiative (UMSL CSSI)
, 117–118

US National Violence Against Women Survey (NVAWS)
, 70–71

Victimization
, 71, 109, 116, 128

multiple measures of
, 76–78

violence
, 73

Victims
, 102–103, 171

surveys estimation
, 10–13

victim-oriented approach
, 10

Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act (2000)
, 169

Violence
, 71–72, 118–119

data
, 17–18

trends in
, 22–23

victimization
, 73

Violence against women
, 69

broad operational definitions
, 70–72

examining with-in group ethnic differences
, 78–80

minimizing underreporting
, 72–78

self-report surveys administered to adult men
, 78

Violent crime measurement, CSEW as
, 27

Visual criminology
, 154–155

Web-crawlers
, 182

WebSPHINX
, 182

Win Web Crawler
, 182