TY - JOUR
T1 - Chasing ghosts? Police perception of high crime areas
AU - Ratcliffe, Jeremy
AU - McCullagh, Michael
N1 - Imported on 12 Apr 2017 - DigiTool details were: Journal title (773t) = The British Journal of Criminology: an international review of crime and society. ISSNs: 0007-0955;
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Respectively School of Policing Studies, Charles Sturt University, NSW Police Academy, Goulburn, Australia; School of Geography, University of Nottingham, UK. In recent years there has been a move within police services towards a proactive and intelligence-led style of policing. This has coincided with a recognition of the value of local policing solutions and the importance of the intelligence function at the local area command level. This paper uses a combination of hotspot analysis within a geographical information system (GIS), a hotspot perception survey of police officers, and small focus groups to assess the intelligence dissemination process for high volume crime on three Nottinghamshire subdivisions. The results indicate a variable result depending on crime type explored and the study has implications for the dissemination of high volume crime intelligence within police services.
AB - Respectively School of Policing Studies, Charles Sturt University, NSW Police Academy, Goulburn, Australia; School of Geography, University of Nottingham, UK. In recent years there has been a move within police services towards a proactive and intelligence-led style of policing. This has coincided with a recognition of the value of local policing solutions and the importance of the intelligence function at the local area command level. This paper uses a combination of hotspot analysis within a geographical information system (GIS), a hotspot perception survey of police officers, and small focus groups to assess the intelligence dissemination process for high volume crime on three Nottinghamshire subdivisions. The results indicate a variable result depending on crime type explored and the study has implications for the dissemination of high volume crime intelligence within police services.
U2 - 10.1093/bjc/41.2.330
DO - 10.1093/bjc/41.2.330
M3 - Article
VL - 41
SP - 330
EP - 341
JO - British Journal of Criminology
JF - British Journal of Criminology
SN - 0007-0955
IS - 2
ER -