The volunteer programme ‘Night Ravens’::a difference-in-difference analysis of the effects on crime rates
The volunteer programme ‘Night Ravens’ (NR) was founded in Sweden in 1987 and has, over the years, developed into a Scandinavian concept covering large areas of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The NR programme is a crime prevention initiative with adults walking the streets...
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ftalborgunivpubl:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/a1d33d62-817a-4920-84b3-3fe573824be4 2024-09-15T18:05:40+00:00 The volunteer programme ‘Night Ravens’::a difference-in-difference analysis of the effects on crime rates Larsen, Britt Østergaard Kleif, Helle Bendix Kolodziejczyk, Christophe 2015-03-17 https://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/a1d33d62-817a-4920-84b3-3fe573824be4 https://doi.org/10.1080/14043858.2015.1015810 eng eng https://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/a1d33d62-817a-4920-84b3-3fe573824be4 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess Larsen , B Ø , Kleif , H B & Kolodziejczyk , C 2015 , ' The volunteer programme ‘Night Ravens’: a difference-in-difference analysis of the effects on crime rates ' , Nordic Journal of Criminology , vol. 16 , no. 1 , pp. 2-24 . https://doi.org/10.1080/14043858.2015.1015810 article 2015 ftalborgunivpubl https://doi.org/10.1080/14043858.2015.1015810 2024-07-10T12:45:36Z The volunteer programme ‘Night Ravens’ (NR) was founded in Sweden in 1987 and has, over the years, developed into a Scandinavian concept covering large areas of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The NR programme is a crime prevention initiative with adults walking the streets at night in identifiable ‘uniforms’ in areas with high activity. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of the NR programme in Denmark based on a volunteer set-up with a less intrusive approach to situational crime prevention than, for instance, hot spot policing. The analyses are based on a longitudinal data set containing socio-demographic information on all 585 postcode districts in Denmark and quarterly records of six different categories of reported crimes in the years 2001–2010.We apply a difference-in-difference design and compare development in crime rates in districts with NR organizations to districts without NR organizations. The results show no difference in the crime rates between Danish postcode districts with and without the NR programme. Hence, we cannot identify positive effects of situational crime prevention when evaluating this Scandinavian volunteer programme with a more informal guardianship. Article in Journal/Newspaper Faroe Islands Greenland Aalborg University's Research Portal Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention 16 1 2 24 |
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The volunteer programme ‘Night Ravens’ (NR) was founded in Sweden in 1987 and has, over the years, developed into a Scandinavian concept covering large areas of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The NR programme is a crime prevention initiative with adults walking the streets at night in identifiable ‘uniforms’ in areas with high activity. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of the NR programme in Denmark based on a volunteer set-up with a less intrusive approach to situational crime prevention than, for instance, hot spot policing. The analyses are based on a longitudinal data set containing socio-demographic information on all 585 postcode districts in Denmark and quarterly records of six different categories of reported crimes in the years 2001–2010.We apply a difference-in-difference design and compare development in crime rates in districts with NR organizations to districts without NR organizations. The results show no difference in the crime rates between Danish postcode districts with and without the NR programme. Hence, we cannot identify positive effects of situational crime prevention when evaluating this Scandinavian volunteer programme with a more informal guardianship. |
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The volunteer programme ‘Night Ravens’::a difference-in-difference analysis of the effects on crime rates |
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The volunteer programme ‘Night Ravens’::a difference-in-difference analysis of the effects on crime rates |
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Larsen , B Ø , Kleif , H B & Kolodziejczyk , C 2015 , ' The volunteer programme ‘Night Ravens’: a difference-in-difference analysis of the effects on crime rates ' , Nordic Journal of Criminology , vol. 16 , no. 1 , pp. 2-24 . https://doi.org/10.1080/14043858.2015.1015810 |
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