Browsing by Author "Polaschek, Devon L. L."
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A framework for estimating crime location choice based on awareness space
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020)This paper extends Crime Pattern Theory, proposing a theoretical framework which aims to explain how offenders’ previous routine activity locations influence their future offence locations. The framework draws on studies ... -
Is there an association between controlling behaviour and intimate partner violence revictimization
(2021)It is becoming increasingly recognized that controlling behaviours are a widespread form of harm experienced by victims of intimate partner violence; and in some countries ‘coercive control’ – the repetitive and systematic ... -
Methods for eliciting informative prior distributions: A critical review
(INFORMS, 2022)Eliciting informative prior distributions for Bayesian inference can often be complex and challenging. Although popular methods rely on asking experts probability-based questions to quantify uncertainty, these methods are ... -
A new Geographic Profiling Suspect Mapping And Ranking Technique for crime investigations: GP-SMART
(Wiley, 2022)This study developed and tested a new geographic profiling method for automating suspect prioritisation in crime investigations. The Geographic Profiling Suspect Mapping And Ranking Technique (GP-SMART) maps suspects' ... -
Relationships between offenders’ crime locations and different prior activity locations as recorded in Police data
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022)Understanding the relationships between individual offenders’ crime locations and their prior activity locations is important to enable individual level predictions to support crime prevention and investigation strategies. ...
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"Be feared, or live in fear": A descriptive model of institutional gang violence
(The University of Waikato, 2023)Prison violence is a significant concern both in New Zealand and across the globe. While past theories and empirical research have highlighted several risk factors implicated in prison violence, we continue to have a limited ... -
Predictive factors of treatment non-completion in the Special Treatment Unit Rehabilitation Programme
(The University of Waikato, 2023)Treatment non-completion poses challenges for organisations delivering offending focused group therapy by reducing the efficiency of the interventions. Participants who leave treatment prematurely are also likely to be ... -
Risk assessment for family violence aggressors in Aotearoa New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2023)In recent decades Family Violence (FV) researchers have developed risk assessment instruments to enable practitioners to identify the people who are most likely to commit FV in the future, and the families who are most ... -
Child witnesses of intimate partner violence: Identifying the roles they have and understanding the situations in which they are present
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Witnessing intimate partner violence (IPV) can have serious psychological, behavioural, cognitive, and somatic impacts on children and yet they continue to be present in over half of all New Zealand Police call outs for ... -
Spatial signatures and mental maps: Using offenders’ activity locations to enhance geographic profiling for crime investigations
(The University of Waikato, 2022)In crime investigations, geographic profiling involves inferring information about ‘whodunit’ from information about where and when the crime occurred. Such inferences are possible because people usually commit crime in ...
