Evaluating the No Cold Calling zones in Peterborough, England: Application of a novel statistical method for evaluating neighbourhood policing policies

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2012-2016

  Li, Guangquan ^a   Haining, Robert ^b   Richardson, Sylvia ^c   Best, Nicky ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian hierarchical models; Interrupted time series analysis; Neighbourhood policing; Policy evaluation; Time series data

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CRIME; NEIGHBORHOOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICE FORCE; POLICY ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; URBAN POLICY;

ENGLAND; PETERBOROUGH [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84881068768     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a45374     Document Type: Article

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