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Christopher S. Koper

Christopher S. Koper

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D-Index
31
Citations
4507
World Ranking
249
National Ranking
182

Overview

Christopher S. Koper is affiliated with George Mason University in the United States and has an extensive record of research in social sciences, particularly focused on crime and policing. Their work spans multiple subfields, including sociology and political science, political science and international relations, health, clinical psychology, and strategy and management.

The primary focus of Koper's research lies in areas such as crime patterns and interventions, policing practices and perceptions, gun ownership and violence research, crime, illicit activities, and governance, as well as suicide and self-harm studies, regulation and compliance studies, and criminal justice and corrections analysis.

Koper's recent publications include:

  • Assessing the potential to reduce deaths and injuries from mass shootings through restrictions on assault weapons and other high-capacity semiautomatic firearms, 2020, Criminology & Public Policy
  • Proactive policing in the United States: a national survey, 2020, Policing An International Journal

While not the primary author, Koper has also been involved in significant research published in collaboration with other researchers, such as studies on:

  • Body-worn cameras' effects on police officers and citizen behavior: A systematic review, 2020, Campbell Systematic Reviews
  • Can We Really Defund the Police? A Nine-Agency Study of Police Response to Calls for Service, 2021, Police Quarterly
  • Examining the Empirical Realities of Proactive Policing Through Systematic Observations and Computer-Aided Dispatch Data, 2020, Police Quarterly

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Koper include Cynthia Lum, Xiaoyun Wu, Bruce G. Taylor, Weiwei Liu, and Megan Stoltz.

Koper publishes regularly in prominent journals, with strong representation in:

  • Police Quarterly
  • Criminology & Public Policy
  • Policing An International Journal
  • CrimRxiv
  • Justice Quarterly

The range and volume of publications highlight Koper's consistent contributions to social sciences, particularly the intersections of criminology, policing, and public policy.

Best Publications

  • Just enough police presence: Reducing crime and disorderly behavior by optimizing patrol time in crime hot spots

    Christopher S. Koper

  • The Evidence-Based Policing Matrix

    Cynthia Lum;Christopher S. Koper;Cody W. Telep

  • A randomized controlled trial of different policing strategies at hot spots of violent crime

    Bruce Taylor;Christopher S. Koper;Daniel J. Woods

  • Research on body-worn cameras

    Cynthia Lum;Megan Stoltz;Christopher S. Koper;J. Amber Scherer

  • Body‐worn cameras’ effects on police officers and citizen behavior: A systematic review

    Cynthia Lum;Christopher S. Koper;David B. Wilson;Megan Stoltz

  • Receptivity to Research in Policing

    Cynthia Lum;Cody W. Telep;Christopher S. Koper;Julie Grieco

  • DETERRING CORPORATE CRIME

    Sally S. Simpson;Christopher S. Koper

  • Understanding the Limits of Technology’s Impact on Police Effectiveness:

    Cynthia Lum;Christopher S. Koper;James Willis

  • Can We Really Defund the Police? A Nine-Agency Study of Police Response to Calls for Service:

    Cynthia Lum;Christopher S. Koper;Xiaoyun Wu

  • Race and sex differences in the prediction of drug use.

    Denise C. Gottfredson;Christopher S. Koper

  • Police crackdowns on illegal gun carrying: a systematic review of their impact on gun crime

    Christopher S. Koper;Evan Mayo-Wilson

  • Characteristics and dynamics of illegal firearms markets: Implications for a supply-side enforcement strategy

    Glenn L. Pierce;Anthony A. Braga;Raymond R. Hayatt;Christopher S. Koper

  • The Impact of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapon Ban on Gun Violence Outcomes: An Assessment of Multiple Outcome Measures and Some Lessons for Policy Evaluation

    Christopher S. Koper;Jeffrey A. Roth

  • Hiring and Retention Issues in Police Agencies: Readings on the Determinants of Police Strength, Hiring and Retention of Officers, and the Federal COPS Program

    Christopher S. Koper

  • Optimizing the Use of Technology in Policing: Results and Implications from a Multi-Site Study of the Social, Organizational, and Behavioural Aspects of Implementing Police Technologies

    Christopher S. Koper;Cynthia Lum;James J. Willis

  • License plate reader (LPR) police patrols in crime hot spots: an experimental evaluation in two adjacent jurisdictions

    Cynthia Lum;Julie Hibdon;Breanne Cave;Christopher S. Koper

  • A randomized test of initial and residual deterrence from directed patrols and use of license plate readers at crime hot spots

    Christopher S. Koper;Bruce G. Taylor;Daniel J. Woods

  • The changing of the guard: Top management characteristics, organizational strain, and antitrust offending

    Sally S. Simpson;Christopher S. Koper

  • Assessing the Practice of Hot Spots Policing Survey Results From a National Convenience Sample of Local Police Agencies

    Christopher S. Koper

  • Examining the Empirical Realities of Proactive Policing Through Systematic Observations and Computer-Aided Dispatch Data:

    Cynthia Lum;Christopher S. Koper;Xiaoyun Wu;William Johnson

  • Criminal Use of Assault Weapons and High-Capacity Semiautomatic Firearms: an Updated Examination of Local and National Sources

    Christopher S. Koper;William D. Johnson;Jordan L. Nichols;Ambrozine Ayers

  • Translational Criminology

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Cynthia Lum
Cynthia Lum George Mason University
Cody W. Telep
Cody W. Telep Arizona State University
Lorraine Mazerolle
Lorraine Mazerolle University of Queensland
Douglas J. Wiebe
Douglas J. Wiebe University of Pennsylvania
Denise C. Gottfredson
Denise C. Gottfredson University of Maryland, College Park
Charles C. Branas
Charles C. Branas Columbia University
Alan L. Berman
Alan L. Berman Johns Hopkins University
Matthew C. Miller
Matthew C. Miller Northeastern University
Daniel W. Webster
Daniel W. Webster Johns Hopkins University
Martin Fishbein
Martin Fishbein University of Pennsylvania

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