Levy develops a model to identify the opportunity and environmental characteristics of repeat victimization of auto theft. At the community level, locations of apartments, bars, and auto repair shops create increased opportunity for auto theft. At the site level, she matches repeat auto theft locations to those that experienced a single victimization. She collects data on W.A.L.L.S. (Watchers, Activity Nodes, Location, Lighting, and Security Devices) variables. Location and lighting were the most significant variables. Watchers and security devices were related to repeat victimization in residential areas, but not commercial areas. These two methodologies together provide crime analysts with a tool that can significantly estimate opportunity as well as identify environmental characteristics related to auto theft.
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Marissa P. Levy is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Richard Stockton College of NJ. Her research interests include situational crime prevention, opportunity theory and environmental criminology while using a blended methodology of quantitative and qualitative measures. Dr. Levy teaches undergraduate research methods and statistics and graduate quantitative reasoning and crime mapping. She received her PhD in Criminal Justice from Rutgers University, Newark.
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new circle, location index, lighting index, routine activity approach, rational choice approach, crime patterns, auto theft opportunity, repeat victimization locations, single victimization, highest opportunity area, theft density, actual auto thefts, auto theft opportunities, auto theft victimization, experiencing repeat victimization, auto theft locations, auto parts locations, target hardening devices, visible drug sales, more activity nodes, overall opportunity structure, fewer watchers, manned exits, auto theft reports, more auto theft Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Security Index, Activity Nodes Index, Environmental Characteristics, Department of Justice, United States, Variables Valid, Tates Creek, Alternate Model, Bryan Station, Policy Implications, New Jersey, Jersey City, Automatic Teller Machines, Correlations There, Opportunity Based, New York, Locations Index, The Club, Relevance of the Environment, Covered Access, Front Heavy, Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, Natural Breaks, Watcher Index, Alternate Parking Browse Sample Pages:
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new circle, location index, lighting index, routine activity approach, rational choice approach, crime patterns, auto theft opportunity, repeat victimization locations, single victimization, highest opportunity area, theft density, actual auto thefts, auto theft opportunities, auto theft victimization, experiencing repeat victimization, auto theft locations, auto parts locations, target hardening devices, visible drug sales, more activity nodes, overall opportunity structure, fewer watchers, manned exits, auto theft reports, more auto theft Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Security Index, Activity Nodes Index, Environmental Characteristics, Department of Justice, United States, Variables Valid, Tates Creek, Alternate Model, Bryan Station, Policy Implications, New Jersey, Jersey City, Automatic Teller Machines, Correlations There, Opportunity Based, New York, Locations Index, The Club, Relevance of the Environment, Covered Access, Front Heavy, Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, Natural Breaks, Watcher Index, Alternate Parking Browse Sample Pages:
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