Highest Harm Crime “Recruiters” in a London Borough: a Case of Moving Targets

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dc.contributor.authorLinton, Benedict
dc.contributor.authorAriel, Barak
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-24T16:10:22Z
dc.date.available2020-12-24T16:10:22Z
dc.date.issued2020-12-10
dc.date.updated2020-12-24T16:10:21Z
dc.description.abstractAbstract: Research Question: Can criminal recruiters be identified and ranked by crime harm levels in a London borough, and if so, how long is the predictive window of opportunity for targeting them with crime prevention efforts? Data: This study deploys 5 years of Metropolitan Police Service crime data, relating to one of the 32 London boroughs in that time period. The data structure allowed identification of all suspects linked to the same crime report and all crime reports linked to the same suspects. Identification of linked suspects and their associated crime harm was undertaken using Structured Query Language (SQL) and ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) via a web-based application. Methods: All offenders were ranked by the number of co-offenders they acquired, as well as the total Cambridge crime harm index weight of the detected offences associated with them. Findings: The highest harm recruiters are shown to be up to 137 times as harmful as the average offender, with one recruiter committing the same number of crimes as another but having 97 times more crime harm. Recruiter populations are highly dynamic, with few potential targets persisting from year to year over multiple years. Conclusions: This study suggests that criminal recruiters are readily identifiable from police data, but police would only have a short window of opportunity to use deterrent or other preventive strategies with them once they are identified.
dc.identifier.doi10.17863/CAM.62714
dc.identifier.eissn2520-1336
dc.identifier.issn2520-1344
dc.identifier.others41887-020-00060-1
dc.identifier.other60
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/315608
dc.languageen
dc.publisherSpringer International Publishing
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectResearch Article
dc.subjectCo-offenders
dc.subjectCrime recruiters
dc.subjectTargeting
dc.subjectCrime harm index
dc.subjectFelonious few
dc.titleHighest Harm Crime “Recruiters” in a London Borough: a Case of Moving Targets
dc.typeArticle
prism.endingPage273
prism.issueIdentifier3-4
prism.publicationNameCambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing
prism.startingPage260
prism.volume4
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
rioxxterms.versionVoR
rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.1007/s41887-020-00060-1
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