ASA Connect

Hello everyone, 

The American Statistical Association's Committee on Law & Justice Statistics invites you to our third webinar in our new series. It will take place on September 30th from 1-1:30pm ET featuring George Mohler, Daniel J. Fitzgerald Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Boston College. Registration is posted on our website and below.

Title: "Statistical Models of Crime Concentration"
Date/Time: September 30, 1-1:30pm ET
Register here!

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Claire

As a reminder, the American Statistical Association's Committee on Law & Justice Statistics invites you to our webinar on September 30th from 1-1:30pm ET featuring George Mohler. The abstract is included below and registration is posted on our website and below.

Title: "Statistical Models of Crime Concentration"
Date/Time: September 30, 1-1:30pm ET
Register here!

Abstract: The law of crime concentration states that 50% of crime occurs in 4-5% of a city's geography.  These "crime hotspots" that comprise the top 5% are the subject of a large body of research in Criminology and are the focus of place-based interventions for reducing crime.  In this talk we discuss some of the statistical assumptions underlying the law of crime concentration and recent efforts to derive better statistical estimators for the law.  We then will discuss statistical models where the law of crime concentration does not hold, including point processes with contagion effects and dynamical systems models where hotspot interventions may alter crime concentration.