Leslie W Kennedy
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 163933 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Leslie W Kennedy |
| NOMBRES | Leslie W |
| APELLIDO | Kennedy |
| FIRMA | KENNEDY L W |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4256-8772 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 188 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Not all convenience stores are equal”. An analysis of the criminogenic role of corner Stores in Newark, NJ
Data-informed crime prevention at convenience stores in Atlantic City
The Atlantic City Police Department intervened to reduce robberies with an evidence-based approach grounded in problem-oriented policing. Informed by risk terrain modeling and hot spot analysis, police commanders implemented a place-based intervention focused around convenience stores. Target areas throughout the city were reprioritized each month to create a dynamic deployment strategy that efficiently allocated resources to the most vulnerable …
Risk Terrain Modeling
Imagine using an evidence-based risk management model that enables researchers and practitioners alike to analyze the spatial dynamics of crime, allocate resources, and implement custom crime and risk reduction strategies that are transparent, measurable, and effective. Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM) diagnoses the spatial attractors of criminal behavior and makes accurate forecasts of where crime will occur at the microlevel. RTM informs decisions a…
Risk-Based Policing
"Risk-based policing is the latest advancement in the long history of policing innovations, where research and planning have combined to manage crime risks, prevent crime, and enhance public safety. In Risk-Based Policing the authors share case studies from different agencies to demonstrate how focusing police resources at risky places, based on smart uses of data and strong analytical work, can address the worst effects of disorder and crime whi…
The Process and Structure of Crime
Criminology has developed strong methodological tools over the past decades, establishing itself as a competitive, sophisticated, and independent social science. Perhaps because of its emphasis on matters of design, methodology, and quantitative analysis, criminology has had few significant advances in theory. Advances in Criminological Theory is the first series exclusively dedicated to the dissemination of original work on criminological theory…
Place-based correlates of Motor Vehicle Theft and Recovery
Social scientists have long shown great interest in the spatial correlates of crime patterns. A subset of the literature has focused on how micro-level spatial factors influence the formation of crime hot spots. At the same time, tangential research has highlighted how neighbourhood disadvantage influences crime occurrence. The current study focuses on the intersection of these perspectives through a spatial analysis of Motor Vehicle Theft (MVT) …
Crime and Terrorism Risk
1. Overview of Risk Assessment and Management 2. Examining the Social Construction of Risk 3. Risk Assessment in Prevention and Response 4. Risk Management 5. Developing Risk Metrics 6. Risk Tolerance and Acceptability 7. Case Studies
Evidence-Based Counterterrorism Policy
"Since the 9/11 terror attacks, the development and implementation of counterterrorism strategies has been a top priority in national security policies in many countries. Yet as the number and scope of these programs grow--with spending to matc--few studies have determined whether they are productive, ineffectual, or even detrimental to security. For too many counterterrorism programs, serious steps toward evaluation have yet to be made. Evidence…
Leading Causes of Unintentional and Intentional Injury Mortality
Objectives. We have described national trends for the 5 leading external causes of injury mortality. Methods. We used negative binomial regression and annual underlying cause-of-death data for US residents for 2000 through 2009. Results. Mortality rates for unintentional poisoning, unintentional falls, and suicide increased by 128%, 71%, and 15%, respectively. The unintentional motor vehicle traffic crash mortality rate declined 25%. Suicide rank…
Risk Terrain Modeling
The research presented here has two key objectives. The first is to apply risk terrain modeling (RTM) to forecast the crime of shootings. The risk terrain maps that were produced from RTM use a range of contextual information relevant to the opportunity structure of shootings to estimate risks of future shootings as they are distributed throughout a geography. The second objective was to test the predictive power of the risk terrain maps over two…
Risk Clusters, Hotspots, and Spatial Intelligence
Secondary narratives in the aftermath of crime
In the research presented here, we apply the storyline framework of the criminal event to the secondary narrative of prisoners’ relationships with family members before and during incarceration, and their plans for life upon release from prison. Analyzing 29 in-depth interviews from 13 inmate/family dyads and one inmate/family triad, we examine multiple views of the impact of incarceration and its consequences for the incarcerated individual, the…
Eden on the Charles
Michael Rawson's Eden on the Charles treats interested readers to a thoughtful survey of how nineteenth-century Americans related to nature and the city. It is essentially a case study that argues “since Boston was America's intellectual center for much of the nineteenth century, it provides especially fertile ground for exploring competing ideas of nature” (p. ix). This largely intellectual history also illuminates key aspects of environmental h…
Issues in Managing Citizens’ Calls to the Police
When Push Comes to Shove
Crime Counts
Risky lifestyles, routine activities, and the General Theory of Crime
Gottfredson and Hirschi's A General Theory of Crime proposes that low self-control is a cause of criminal behavior. Several recent studies, showing mixed support, test this theory for understanding crime and imprudent behavior. In this paper we reassess the general theory of crime and highlight the importance of proximate causes, including routine conflict, in explaining the propensity toward violence. Drawing from the insights provided by routin…
Stranger Violence
Knowledge of spouse abuse in the community
On the Borders of Crime
Social conflict on the borders of crime linking conflict and crime - theoretical questions the origins of social conflict - dispute careers and their relationship to crime legal responses to crime and conflict mediation, disputes, and crime police and informal justice conflict management and the role of the courts summary of propositions and research agenda for conflict-bases criminology
Homicide in Urban Canada
Leslie W. Kennedy, Robert A. Silverman, David R. Forde, Homicide in Urban Canada: Testing the Impact of Economic Inequality and Social Disorganization, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 397-410
The Geography of Crime
Sourcebooks and Research Issues
This article describes how to use a review of the literature on crime and criminality to teach about research problems in an undergraduate sociology course. Students examined a subset of the original articles summarized in a review to evaluate the authors' research. A focus on the ways in which to study crime showed how measurement issues influenced the conclusions drawn about criminal behavior. We encouraged students to identify and interpret th…
Murdered children
Rural-urban origin and fear of crime
Routine Activities and Crime
Miethe et al. (1987) have suggested that there are strong interaction effects between demographic characteristics of victims and certain routine activities that occur at night and away from home, but only for victims of property crime. This same pattern does not appear for victims of violent crime, they maintain, because unlike property crime, violent crime often involves interpersonal conflict and disagreement and is therefore spontaneous. Using…
Subjective evaluation of well-being
Secondary narratives in the aftermath of crime
In the research presented here, we apply the storyline framework of the criminal event to the secondary narrative of prisoners’ relationships with family members before and during incarceration, and their plans for life upon release from prison. Analyzing 29 in-depth interviews from 13 inmate/family dyads and one inmate/family triad, we examine multiple views of the impact of incarceration and its consequences for the incarcerated individual, the…
Homicide in Urban Canada
Leslie W. Kennedy, Robert A. Silverman, David R. Forde, Homicide in Urban Canada: Testing the Impact of Economic Inequality and Social Disorganization, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 397-410
Leading Causes of Unintentional and Intentional Injury Mortality
Objectives. We have described national trends for the 5 leading external causes of injury mortality. Methods. We used negative binomial regression and annual underlying cause-of-death data for US residents for 2000 through 2009. Results. Mortality rates for unintentional poisoning, unintentional falls, and suicide increased by 128%, 71%, and 15%, respectively. The unintentional motor vehicle traffic crash mortality rate declined 25%. Suicide rank…
Perceived quality of life in a centre-periphery framework
Producing Personal Safety
Aggregate data from a sample of 23 Canadian cities are used to examine relationships among crime rates, police staffing rates, fear of crime, and citizens’crime prevention behaviors. Bivariate and path analyses reveal positive correlations between fear of crime and parallel production (crime prevention behaviors) and negative impacts of police force size on such behaviors. Crime rates have both direct and indirect positive effects (via fear of cr…
Effects of social change on well-being
The Elderly Victim of Homicide
This study attempts to resolve some of the disparity between lifestyle/routine activities theory and empirical findings concerning the elderly victim of homicide. Analysis of Canadian data leads to the conclusion that the elderly are disproportionately victims of theft-based homicide, a finding not consistent with the routine activity approach. A reformulation of the theory resolves the theory/data gap
Place-based correlates of Motor Vehicle Theft and Recovery
Social scientists have long shown great interest in the spatial correlates of crime patterns. A subset of the literature has focused on how micro-level spatial factors influence the formation of crime hot spots. At the same time, tangential research has highlighted how neighbourhood disadvantage influences crime occurrence. The current study focuses on the intersection of these perspectives through a spatial analysis of Motor Vehicle Theft (MVT) …
Extended Family Support and the High Cost of Housing
The relationship between increasing housing costs and modified extended kin support is investigated using probability survey data (N = 452) from a large city in western Canada. A multivariate analysis, controlling for the differential and interacting effects of social class, life cycle, and housing tenure determined that home ownership and kin support are afunction of stage in the life cycle. The implications of these findings for increased strai…
Understanding Homicide Trends
Going it alone
Environmental Opportunity and Social Contact
Murdered children
Governing Metropolitan Toronto
Environmental Opportunity and Social Contact
Subjective evaluation of well-being
Perspectives Canada III
Extended Family Support and the High Cost of Housing
The relationship between increasing housing costs and modified extended kin support is investigated using probability survey data (N = 452) from a large city in western Canada. A multivariate analysis, controlling for the differential and interacting effects of social class, life cycle, and housing tenure determined that home ownership and kin support are afunction of stage in the life cycle. The implications of these findings for increased strai…
Residential stability and social contact
Residential mobility was examined using a path-model to determine the importance of social contact with friends and neighbors as a predictor of the desire to move. No effects were found. The major factors leading to moving aspirations related to both residential and neighborhood satisfaction.
Producing Personal Safety
Aggregate data from a sample of 23 Canadian cities are used to examine relationships among crime rates, police staffing rates, fear of crime, and citizens’crime prevention behaviors. Bivariate and path analyses reveal positive correlations between fear of crime and parallel production (crime prevention behaviors) and negative impacts of police force size on such behaviors. Crime rates have both direct and indirect positive effects (via fear of cr…
Effects of social change on well-being
Rethinking the Community's Role in Crime
Going it alone
Perceived quality of life in a centre-periphery framework
Understanding Homicide Trends
The Geography of Crime
Sourcebooks and Research Issues
This article describes how to use a review of the literature on crime and criminality to teach about research problems in an undergraduate sociology course. Students examined a subset of the original articles summarized in a review to evaluate the authors' research. A focus on the ways in which to study crime showed how measurement issues influenced the conclusions drawn about criminal behavior. We encouraged students to identify and interpret th…
Murdered children
Routine Activities and Crime
Miethe et al. (1987) have suggested that there are strong interaction effects between demographic characteristics of victims and certain routine activities that occur at night and away from home, but only for victims of property crime. This same pattern does not appear for victims of violent crime, they maintain, because unlike property crime, violent crime often involves interpersonal conflict and disagreement and is therefore spontaneous. Using…
The Elderly Victim of Homicide
This study attempts to resolve some of the disparity between lifestyle/routine activities theory and empirical findings concerning the elderly victim of homicide. Analysis of Canadian data leads to the conclusion that the elderly are disproportionately victims of theft-based homicide, a finding not consistent with the routine activity approach. A reformulation of the theory resolves the theory/data gap
Knowledge of spouse abuse in the community
On the Borders of Crime
Social conflict on the borders of crime linking conflict and crime - theoretical questions the origins of social conflict - dispute careers and their relationship to crime legal responses to crime and conflict mediation, disputes, and crime police and informal justice conflict management and the role of the courts summary of propositions and research agenda for conflict-bases criminology
Homicide in Urban Canada
Leslie W. Kennedy, Robert A. Silverman, David R. Forde, Homicide in Urban Canada: Testing the Impact of Economic Inequality and Social Disorganization, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 397-410
Stranger Violence
Risky lifestyles, routine activities, and the General Theory of Crime
Gottfredson and Hirschi's A General Theory of Crime proposes that low self-control is a cause of criminal behavior. Several recent studies, showing mixed support, test this theory for understanding crime and imprudent behavior. In this paper we reassess the general theory of crime and highlight the importance of proximate causes, including routine conflict, in explaining the propensity toward violence. Drawing from the insights provided by routin…
Crime Counts
When Push Comes to Shove
Issues in Managing Citizens’ Calls to the Police
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