[Canada] Community Variation in Crime Clearance: A Multilevel Analysis with Comments on Assessing Police Performance
Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Volume 23, Number 3 / September, 2007, Pages 243-258
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Paul-Philippe Paré, Richard B. Felson and Marc Ouimet
"We use data from the Province of Quebec to examine how the characteristics of a crime and the community context in which it occurs affect the likelihood that it will be cleared by the police. Workload is not very important, having only a slight effect on the clearance of misdemeanours. The fact that offenders are much more likely to evade the law in some communities than others may have important implications for deterrence. Two methods to improve the evaluation of police departments at crime clearance are also proposed."
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