Andromachi Tseloni
Biographic Data
| ID | 1713482 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andromachi Tseloni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andromachi |
| FAMILY NAME | Tseloni |
| SIGNATURE | TSELONI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nottingham Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6443-7012 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 216 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 31 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Trajectories of Lethal Violence
This review critically examines long-term trends of lethal violence in England and Wales. Notably, the timing, character, and distribution of the homicide drop here deviates from trends observed in other forms of violence and comparable jurisdictions. Drawing on extensive research and multidecade data from the Homicide Index (1977–2020), this review explores key theoretical frameworks, disaggregates offender and victim profiles, and investigates …
Prevalence, trends, and predictors of victimisation and polyvictimisation among children in England and Wales
Childhood victimisation and polyvictimisation (experiencing two or more distinct crime types) can have lasting developmental, psychological, and social consequences. Yet there is limited research on victimisation and polyvictimisation in England and Wales using robust data sets. This study addresses this gap by investigating prevalence, trends, and individual, household, and area-level predictors of non-sexual non-familial violence, personal thef…
Theory Development and Crime Prevention Insights From the NCVS
The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) has furnished U.S. crime statistics and high quality data for theory development and policy insights for over 50 years. This article highlights few of these achievements drawing on the development of criminological thinking with regard to measurement, and explanation of victimization and its concentration on a small minority of the population. It overviews lifestyle and the more encompassing environm…
Violence and the crime drop
According to the Crime Survey for England and Wales, violence fell dramatically between 1995 and 2013/14. To improve understanding of the fall in violent crime, this study examines long-term crime trends in England and Wales over the past two decades, by scrutinizing the trends in (a) stranger and acquaintance violence, (b) severity of violence, (c) age groups, and (d) sexes. It draws on nationally representative, weighted data from the Crime Sur…
Evaluating harm-reduction initiatives in a night-time economy and music festival context
Pubs, clubs, and music festivals are places characterised by increased alcohol consumption. Drinkaware, a UK alcohol awareness charity, delivered two crime-prevention initiatives designed to reduce alcohol-related harm among young adults: the “Drinkaware Crew” initiative implemented at night-time-economy (NTE) venues, and more recently, the Drinkaware “Festival Crew”. This paper uses mixed methods to present (a) an outcome evaluation of the socie…
Reducing Burglary
Signature dish
This article describes realist evaluation research combining data signatures and theories of causal mechanism as a means of shedding light on why crime has declined in recent years. A data signature is an empirical indicator of how or why something has occurred. The use of multiple signatures - a 'dish' - from different angles and contexts can, if they point in the same direction, result in a form of triangulation that reduces the chance of inter…
Do burglar alarms increase burglary risk? A counter-intuitive finding and possible explanations
Burglar alarms are widely used as a means to try to reduce the risk of domestic burglary. Previous research has suggested that some burglars are deterred by alarms and that they are therefore effective. Using multiple sweeps of the Crime Survey for England and Wales, the research reported here sought to corroborate these findings. It finds that alarms have become associated with increased rather than decreased risk of burglary with entry. This co…
Using Modeling to Predict and Prevent Victimization
Area and individual differences in personal crime victimization incidence
This article examines how personal crime differences between areas and between individuals are predicted by area and population heterogeneity and their synergies. It draws on lifestyle/routine activities and social disorganization theories to model the number of personal victimization incidents over individuals including routine activities and area characteristics, respectively, as well as their (cross-cluster) interactions. The methodology emplo…
Why the Crime Drop
The “crime drop” is the most important criminological phenomenon of modern times. In North America, Europe, and Australasia, many common crimes have fallen by half or more since the early 1990s, albeit with variation in the specifics. Seventeen explanations are examined here including demographics, policing, imprisonment, drug markets, and lead poisoning. Pioneering research relevant only to the United States now appears, with the benefit of hind…
The international crime drop
Editors' Introduction PART I: INTERNATIONAL TRENDS Global Overview: International trends in Victimization and Recorded Crime J.van Dijk & A.Tseloni Crime Trends in Western Europe According to Official Statistics from 1990 to 2007 M.F.Aebi & A.Linde The Case of Australia and New Zealand P.Mayhew Trends in Violence Against Women: Some Good News and Some Bad News K.Kangaspunta & I.H.Marshall The Crime Drop in 'Non-Western' Countries: a Review of Hom…
The International Crime Drop
Drawing on new studies from major European countries and Australia, this exciting collection extends the ongoing debate on falling crime rates from the perspective of criminal opportunity or routine a
The Crime Drop and the Security Hypothesis
Major crime drops were experienced in the United States and most other industrialized countries for a decade from the early to mid-1990s. Yet there is little agreement over explanation or lessons for policy. Here it is proposed that change in the quantity and quality of security was a key driver of the crime drop. From evidence relating to vehicle theft in two countries, it is concluded that electronic immobilizers and central locking were partic…
The effectiveness of vehicle security devices and their role in the crime drop
Car theft in the UK fell two-thirds from the mid-1990s as part of more widespread crime drops, and has been attributed to improved vehicle security. This study develops a Security Impact Assessment Tool (SIAT) to gauge the contribution of individual security devices and their combination. The metric of impact derived is termed the Security Protection Factor (SPF). Cars with central locking plus an electronic immobilizer, and often an alarm, are f…
Income Disparities of Burglary Risk
In the past 15 years, volume crimes dropped substantially in most countries with reliable crime-trend estimates. In England and Wales, domestic burglary fell by 58 per cent between 1995 and 2008/09, the trend levelling off after 2005/06. Wider use of more and better security arguably contributed to these drops. The availability of enhanced and especially basic security increased between 1997 and 2005/06, while burglary risk fell for all populatio…
Exploring the international decline in crime rates
This paper examines aggregate crime trends and variation around them from 1988 to 2004 for 26 countries and five main crime types using data from the International Crime Victims Survey. Multilevel statistical analysis is used to identify the main trends. Major drops in crime were experienced in many countries from the early to mid-1990s onwards. The current analysis estimates that between 1995 and 2004, the mean international crime incidence redu…
Explaining and sustaining the crime drop
Psychiatric morbidity and social capital in rural communities of the Greek North Aegean islands
Which facets of social capital affect mental health in rural settings? This study explores the association between different aspects of social capital and psychiatric morbidity in rural communities of the Greek North Aegean islands. A large number of individual and community characteristics that may influence psychiatric morbidity are concurrently examined in multilevel models to account for the clustering of individuals within rural settings. Th…
Exploring social capital in rural settlements of an islander region in Greece
This paper reports on a large scale cross‐sectional study examining subjective perceptions of community social life held by a randomly selected sample of residents ( n = 428) in all small rural settings ( n = 89) of the region of North Aegean Sea. The notion of social capital was used as a conceptual tool in order to explore different aspects of the relational life of contemporary rural communities. This study has two aims: First to provide an ac…
Democracy and Crime
Despite simultaneous increases in democratization and violent crime rates in many countries during the second half of the twentieth century, the authors could find no prior studies that have directly examined possible connections between these two processes. The civilization perspective predicts that violent crime rates will decline along with the civilizing effects of democratization, the conflict perspective predicts that violent crime rates wi…
Repeat Victimization in the ICVS and the NCVS
Population Inequality
This paper employs data from the 2000 British Crime Survey for England and Wales to discuss ways of illustrating the degree of inequality in the distribution of crime victimization. In particular, Lorenz curves are presented for major crime categories, i.e. property, personal and vehicle crime, and their components are presented. They are fitted both nationally (Le. to victimized and non-victimized people) and amongst victims. Crime Lorenz curves…
Predicting Crime Rates, Fear and Disorder Based on Area Information
This study discusses methods for predicting local crime rates, measures of fear of crime and measures of disorder that are based on regression models which make use of local census variables and regional dummies. The crime types for which predictions are made are personal crime, total household crime, burglary and vehicle crime. The information on crime, fear of crime and disorder is drawn from the 2000 British Crime Survey. The local census vari…
Repeat Victimization
Democracy and Crime
Despite simultaneous increases in democratization and violent crime rates in many countries during the second half of the twentieth century, the authors could find no prior studies that have directly examined possible connections between these two processes. The civilization perspective predicts that violent crime rates will decline along with the civilizing effects of democratization, the conflict perspective predicts that violent crime rates wi…
Why the Crime Drop
The “crime drop” is the most important criminological phenomenon of modern times. In North America, Europe, and Australasia, many common crimes have fallen by half or more since the early 1990s, albeit with variation in the specifics. Seventeen explanations are examined here including demographics, policing, imprisonment, drug markets, and lead poisoning. Pioneering research relevant only to the United States now appears, with the benefit of hind…
Burglary Victimization in England and Wales, the United States and the Netherlands
Journal Article Burglary Victimization in England and Wales, the United States and the Netherlands: A Cross-National Comparative Test of Routine Activities and Lifestyle Theories Get access Andromachi Tseloni, Andromachi Tseloni Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Karin Wittebrood, Karin Wittebrood Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Graham Farrell, Graham Farrell Search fo…
Predicting Crime Rates, Fear and Disorder Based on Area Information
This study discusses methods for predicting local crime rates, measures of fear of crime and measures of disorder that are based on regression models which make use of local census variables and regional dummies. The crime types for which predictions are made are personal crime, total household crime, burglary and vehicle crime. The information on crime, fear of crime and disorder is drawn from the 2000 British Crime Survey. The local census vari…
Modelling Property Crime Using the British Crime Survey. What Have We Learnt
The British Crime Survey (BCS) has been used to develop a number of statistical models that describe property crime victimization at the level of the individual household. This paper gives an overview of what has been learnt from these studies. In terms of the predictors of crime, it is now well established that both household and area characteristics play important roles: in particular, household affluence has a positive effect on crime victimiz…
Explaining and sustaining the crime drop
The effectiveness of vehicle security devices and their role in the crime drop
Car theft in the UK fell two-thirds from the mid-1990s as part of more widespread crime drops, and has been attributed to improved vehicle security. This study develops a Security Impact Assessment Tool (SIAT) to gauge the contribution of individual security devices and their combination. The metric of impact derived is termed the Security Protection Factor (SPF). Cars with central locking plus an electronic immobilizer, and often an alarm, are f…
Repeat Personal Victimization. 'Boosts' or 'Flags
Repeat victimization has recently featured prominently in crime reduction research, especially in the UK. Crime prevention efforts which focus on repeats have enjoyed some success. Yet little is known about what generates repeat victimization. While this remains the case, the scope for crime reduction through the prevention of repeated events against the same target will be limited. There is general agreement about the potential relevance of two …
Repeat Personal Victimization
Journal Article Repeat Personal Victimization: Random Effects, Event Dependence and Unexplained Heterogeneity Get access Andromachi Tseloni, Andromachi Tseloni Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ken Pease Ken Pease Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 44, Issue 6, November 2004, Pages 931–945, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azh047 Pub…
Exploring social capital in rural settlements of an islander region in Greece
This paper reports on a large scale cross‐sectional study examining subjective perceptions of community social life held by a randomly selected sample of residents ( n = 428) in all small rural settings ( n = 89) of the region of North Aegean Sea. The notion of social capital was used as a conceptual tool in order to explore different aspects of the relational life of contemporary rural communities. This study has two aims: First to provide an ac…
Income Disparities of Burglary Risk
In the past 15 years, volume crimes dropped substantially in most countries with reliable crime-trend estimates. In England and Wales, domestic burglary fell by 58 per cent between 1995 and 2008/09, the trend levelling off after 2005/06. Wider use of more and better security arguably contributed to these drops. The availability of enhanced and especially basic security increased between 1997 and 2005/06, while burglary risk fell for all populatio…
Population Inequality
This paper employs data from the 2000 British Crime Survey for England and Wales to discuss ways of illustrating the degree of inequality in the distribution of crime victimization. In particular, Lorenz curves are presented for major crime categories, i.e. property, personal and vehicle crime, and their components are presented. They are fitted both nationally (Le. to victimized and non-victimized people) and amongst victims. Crime Lorenz curves…
Do burglar alarms increase burglary risk? A counter-intuitive finding and possible explanations
Burglar alarms are widely used as a means to try to reduce the risk of domestic burglary. Previous research has suggested that some burglars are deterred by alarms and that they are therefore effective. Using multiple sweeps of the Crime Survey for England and Wales, the research reported here sought to corroborate these findings. It finds that alarms have become associated with increased rather than decreased risk of burglary with entry. This co…
Repeat Victimization in the ICVS and the NCVS
Signature dish
This article describes realist evaluation research combining data signatures and theories of causal mechanism as a means of shedding light on why crime has declined in recent years. A data signature is an empirical indicator of how or why something has occurred. The use of multiple signatures - a 'dish' - from different angles and contexts can, if they point in the same direction, result in a form of triangulation that reduces the chance of inter…
Area and individual differences in personal crime victimization incidence
This article examines how personal crime differences between areas and between individuals are predicted by area and population heterogeneity and their synergies. It draws on lifestyle/routine activities and social disorganization theories to model the number of personal victimization incidents over individuals including routine activities and area characteristics, respectively, as well as their (cross-cluster) interactions. The methodology emplo…
Psychiatric morbidity and social capital in rural communities of the Greek North Aegean islands
Which facets of social capital affect mental health in rural settings? This study explores the association between different aspects of social capital and psychiatric morbidity in rural communities of the Greek North Aegean islands. A large number of individual and community characteristics that may influence psychiatric morbidity are concurrently examined in multilevel models to account for the clustering of individuals within rural settings. Th…
The Modelling of Threats
Threats to kill, to injure, or to damage property stimulate fear and anxiety in the victim and his/her immediate human environment. Previous research has used sociodemographic attributes and lifestyle or routine activities measurements to predict crime victimisation rates. The purpose of this study is to examine how personal characteristics are associated with the probability of being threatened. Data from three sweeps of the British Crime Survey…
The Modelling of Threats
Threats to kill, to injure, or to damage property stimulate fear and anxiety in the victim and his/her immediate human environment. Previous research has used sociodemographic attributes and lifestyle or routine activities measurements to predict crime victimisation rates. The purpose of this study is to examine how personal characteristics are associated with the probability of being threatened. Data from three sweeps of the British Crime Survey…
Juvenile‐Adult Differences in Criminal Justice
This analysis is concerned with juvenile/adult ratios of males and females at different stages of the criminal justice system, that is, apprehension, prosecution, conviction and imprisonment for the year 1975 and suspicion, prosecution, conviction, admission to prison and prison population in 1980 and 1986. Data from the Second and Third United Nations Crime Surveys, which covered about 90 countries, are employed. To counteract national age and g…
What Does the World Spend on Policing
Social indicators vary in their breadth and coverage. One popular indicator of the priority that society gives to specific areas of life is a measure of monetary expenditure. Do we spend more or less on X or on Y? Is the balance correct? A necessary precursor to such comparisons is measurement. This paper presents a method for estimating annual global expenditure on policing. Data from the fifth sweep of the United Nations Survey of Crime Trends …
Modelling Property Crime Using the British Crime Survey. What Have We Learnt
The British Crime Survey (BCS) has been used to develop a number of statistical models that describe property crime victimization at the level of the individual household. This paper gives an overview of what has been learnt from these studies. In terms of the predictors of crime, it is now well established that both household and area characteristics play important roles: in particular, household affluence has a positive effect on crime victimiz…
Repeat Personal Victimization. 'Boosts' or 'Flags
Repeat victimization has recently featured prominently in crime reduction research, especially in the UK. Crime prevention efforts which focus on repeats have enjoyed some success. Yet little is known about what generates repeat victimization. While this remains the case, the scope for crime reduction through the prevention of repeated events against the same target will be limited. There is general agreement about the potential relevance of two …
Repeat Personal Victimization
Journal Article Repeat Personal Victimization: Random Effects, Event Dependence and Unexplained Heterogeneity Get access Andromachi Tseloni, Andromachi Tseloni Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ken Pease Ken Pease Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 44, Issue 6, November 2004, Pages 931–945, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azh047 Pub…
Burglary Victimization in England and Wales, the United States and the Netherlands
Journal Article Burglary Victimization in England and Wales, the United States and the Netherlands: A Cross-National Comparative Test of Routine Activities and Lifestyle Theories Get access Andromachi Tseloni, Andromachi Tseloni Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Karin Wittebrood, Karin Wittebrood Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Graham Farrell, Graham Farrell Search fo…
Repeat Victimization in the ICVS and the NCVS
Population Inequality
This paper employs data from the 2000 British Crime Survey for England and Wales to discuss ways of illustrating the degree of inequality in the distribution of crime victimization. In particular, Lorenz curves are presented for major crime categories, i.e. property, personal and vehicle crime, and their components are presented. They are fitted both nationally (Le. to victimized and non-victimized people) and amongst victims. Crime Lorenz curves…
Predicting Crime Rates, Fear and Disorder Based on Area Information
This study discusses methods for predicting local crime rates, measures of fear of crime and measures of disorder that are based on regression models which make use of local census variables and regional dummies. The crime types for which predictions are made are personal crime, total household crime, burglary and vehicle crime. The information on crime, fear of crime and disorder is drawn from the 2000 British Crime Survey. The local census vari…
Repeat Victimization
Democracy and Crime
Despite simultaneous increases in democratization and violent crime rates in many countries during the second half of the twentieth century, the authors could find no prior studies that have directly examined possible connections between these two processes. The civilization perspective predicts that violent crime rates will decline along with the civilizing effects of democratization, the conflict perspective predicts that violent crime rates wi…
Exploring social capital in rural settlements of an islander region in Greece
This paper reports on a large scale cross‐sectional study examining subjective perceptions of community social life held by a randomly selected sample of residents ( n = 428) in all small rural settings ( n = 89) of the region of North Aegean Sea. The notion of social capital was used as a conceptual tool in order to explore different aspects of the relational life of contemporary rural communities. This study has two aims: First to provide an ac…
Exploring the international decline in crime rates
This paper examines aggregate crime trends and variation around them from 1988 to 2004 for 26 countries and five main crime types using data from the International Crime Victims Survey. Multilevel statistical analysis is used to identify the main trends. Major drops in crime were experienced in many countries from the early to mid-1990s onwards. The current analysis estimates that between 1995 and 2004, the mean international crime incidence redu…
Explaining and sustaining the crime drop
Psychiatric morbidity and social capital in rural communities of the Greek North Aegean islands
Which facets of social capital affect mental health in rural settings? This study explores the association between different aspects of social capital and psychiatric morbidity in rural communities of the Greek North Aegean islands. A large number of individual and community characteristics that may influence psychiatric morbidity are concurrently examined in multilevel models to account for the clustering of individuals within rural settings. Th…
The Crime Drop and the Security Hypothesis
Major crime drops were experienced in the United States and most other industrialized countries for a decade from the early to mid-1990s. Yet there is little agreement over explanation or lessons for policy. Here it is proposed that change in the quantity and quality of security was a key driver of the crime drop. From evidence relating to vehicle theft in two countries, it is concluded that electronic immobilizers and central locking were partic…
The effectiveness of vehicle security devices and their role in the crime drop
Car theft in the UK fell two-thirds from the mid-1990s as part of more widespread crime drops, and has been attributed to improved vehicle security. This study develops a Security Impact Assessment Tool (SIAT) to gauge the contribution of individual security devices and their combination. The metric of impact derived is termed the Security Protection Factor (SPF). Cars with central locking plus an electronic immobilizer, and often an alarm, are f…
Income Disparities of Burglary Risk
In the past 15 years, volume crimes dropped substantially in most countries with reliable crime-trend estimates. In England and Wales, domestic burglary fell by 58 per cent between 1995 and 2008/09, the trend levelling off after 2005/06. Wider use of more and better security arguably contributed to these drops. The availability of enhanced and especially basic security increased between 1997 and 2005/06, while burglary risk fell for all populatio…
The international crime drop
Editors' Introduction PART I: INTERNATIONAL TRENDS Global Overview: International trends in Victimization and Recorded Crime J.van Dijk & A.Tseloni Crime Trends in Western Europe According to Official Statistics from 1990 to 2007 M.F.Aebi & A.Linde The Case of Australia and New Zealand P.Mayhew Trends in Violence Against Women: Some Good News and Some Bad News K.Kangaspunta & I.H.Marshall The Crime Drop in 'Non-Western' Countries: a Review of Hom…
The International Crime Drop
Drawing on new studies from major European countries and Australia, this exciting collection extends the ongoing debate on falling crime rates from the perspective of criminal opportunity or routine a
Using Modeling to Predict and Prevent Victimization
Area and individual differences in personal crime victimization incidence
This article examines how personal crime differences between areas and between individuals are predicted by area and population heterogeneity and their synergies. It draws on lifestyle/routine activities and social disorganization theories to model the number of personal victimization incidents over individuals including routine activities and area characteristics, respectively, as well as their (cross-cluster) interactions. The methodology emplo…
Why the Crime Drop
The “crime drop” is the most important criminological phenomenon of modern times. In North America, Europe, and Australasia, many common crimes have fallen by half or more since the early 1990s, albeit with variation in the specifics. Seventeen explanations are examined here including demographics, policing, imprisonment, drug markets, and lead poisoning. Pioneering research relevant only to the United States now appears, with the benefit of hind…
Do burglar alarms increase burglary risk? A counter-intuitive finding and possible explanations
Burglar alarms are widely used as a means to try to reduce the risk of domestic burglary. Previous research has suggested that some burglars are deterred by alarms and that they are therefore effective. Using multiple sweeps of the Crime Survey for England and Wales, the research reported here sought to corroborate these findings. It finds that alarms have become associated with increased rather than decreased risk of burglary with entry. This co…
Crime Patterns and Interventions (27 works) · Psychology (25 works) · Criminology (23 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (14 works) · Poison control (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (12 works) · Geography (11 works) · Medicine (11 works)