TY - JOUR
T1 - Home Nodes, Criminogenic Places, and Parolee Failure
T2 - Testing an Environmental Model of Offender Risk
AU - Miller, Joel
AU - Caplan, Joel M.
AU - Ostermann, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013, © The Author(s) 2013.
PY - 2016/2/1
Y1 - 2016/2/1
N2 - This article examines whether potentially criminogenic places (including bars, liquor stores, restaurants, public transport hubs, drug markets, and more), located within a 1,240-feet radius of parolees’ residences (the home “node”), predict their rearrest or revocation. Taking these features into account, in addition to individual traits and behaviors, might pave the way for more accurate risk assessment that could help make supervision sensitive to place-based risks. However, multivariate survival analysis of 1,632 parolees released to Newark during July 2007 to June 2009 found little evidence that these factors increased the risk of failure. Successful operationalization of environmental risk will probably need to incorporate more detailed measures of parolees’ routine activities, including the settings and paths they frequent beyond their home environment.
AB - This article examines whether potentially criminogenic places (including bars, liquor stores, restaurants, public transport hubs, drug markets, and more), located within a 1,240-feet radius of parolees’ residences (the home “node”), predict their rearrest or revocation. Taking these features into account, in addition to individual traits and behaviors, might pave the way for more accurate risk assessment that could help make supervision sensitive to place-based risks. However, multivariate survival analysis of 1,632 parolees released to Newark during July 2007 to June 2009 found little evidence that these factors increased the risk of failure. Successful operationalization of environmental risk will probably need to incorporate more detailed measures of parolees’ routine activities, including the settings and paths they frequent beyond their home environment.
KW - crime pattern theory
KW - node
KW - parole
KW - risk assessment
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U2 - 10.1177/0011128713478130
DO - 10.1177/0011128713478130
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84952893556
SN - 0011-1287
VL - 62
SP - 169
EP - 199
JO - Crime and Delinquency
JF - Crime and Delinquency
IS - 2
ER -