spatial patterns
Type: News Story
Research by Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Studies Jeremy Mennis and Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Philip Harris found that neighborhood influence not only increases the likelihood that juveniles who have committed crimes will re-offend, it can also cause teenage boys to "specialize" in certain types of crime.
February 17, 2012
Temple sociologist foregrounds place as a risk factor for suicide
Type: News Story
Every day 85 Americans die by suicide and hundreds of thousands more make attempts every year. The vast majority of recent studies on suicide have focused on identifying psychiatric risk factors.
November 10, 2008
Study finds spatial and temporal patterns of violence in Philadelphia
Type: News Story
As Philadelphia police concentrate on lowering the city's homicide rate, a new study has found evidence of a predictable pattern for one type of shooting — those classified as “near-repeats.” “Our study found that once there is a shooting on a street corner, the risk of another shooting within a block of that location over the next two weeks increases by a third,” said Criminal Justice Profes
February 4, 2008