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Overview

Kate J. Bowers is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research focus is situated primarily within the social sciences, with a particular emphasis on sociology and political science. Their work also spans related subfields including epidemiology, political science and international relations, clinical psychology, and modeling and simulation.

The core themes of Kate J. Bowers' research involve crime patterns and interventions, crime, illicit activities, and governance, as well as policing practices and perceptions. Additional topics covered in their publications include criminal justice and corrections analysis, sex work and related issues, HIV, drug use, sexual risk, and COVID-19 epidemiological studies.

Their recent published papers illustrate a range of interests within these topics. These include:

  • "A systematic review of the effectiveness of the electronic monitoring of offenders" (2020, Journal of Criminal Justice)
  • "Understanding the concept of 'demand' in policing: a scoping review and resulting implications for demand management" (2020, Policing & Society)
  • "Examining the geographies of human trafficking: Methodological challenges in mapping trafficking's complexities and connectivities" (2022, Applied Geography)
  • "Spatio-temporal stratified associations between urban human activities and crime patterns: a case study in San Francisco around the COVID-19 stay-at-home mandate" (2022, Computational Urban Science)
  • "How Strong is the Evidence-Base for Crime Reduction Professionals?" (2020, Justice Evaluation Journal)

Kate J. Bowers frequently collaborates with several co-authors. The most frequent collaborators include Shane D. Johnson, Tongxin Chen, Tao Cheng, John E. Eck, and Shannon J. Linning, reflecting ongoing partnerships in the exploration of crime-related research topics.

Their work has appeared in a number of publication venues with multiple papers published in the Journal of Criminal Justice, Crime Science, Computational Urban Science, CrimRxiv, and Policing & Society. This pattern of publication highlights a consistent focus on criminal justice and policing scholarship.

Best Publications

  • Assessing the Extent of Crime Displacement and Diffusion of Benefits: A Review of Situational Crime Prevention Evaluations *

    Rob T. Guerette;Kate J. Bowers

  • Space-time patterns of risk: A cross national assessment of residential burglary victimization

    Shane D. Johnson;Wim Bernasco;Kate J. Bowers;Henk Elffers

  • Prospective hot-spotting - The future of crime mapping?

    Kate J. Bowers;Shane D. Johnson;Ken Pease

  • The Burglary as Clue to the Future The Beginnings of Prospective Hot-Spotting

    Shane D. Johnson;Kate J. Bowers

  • Permeability and Burglary Risk: Are Cul-de-Sacs Safer?

    Shane D. Johnson;Kate J. Bowers

  • The Effect of Social Cohesion on Levels of Recorded Crime in Disadvantaged Areas

    A. Hirschfield;K.J. Bowers

  • Measuring the Geographical Displacement and Diffusion of Benefit Effects of Crime Prevention Activity

    Kate J. Bowers;Shane D. Johnson

  • The Stability of Space-Time Clusters of Burglary

    Shane D. Johnson;Kate J. Bowers

  • Domestic Burglary Repeats and Space-Time Clusters: The Dimensions of Risk

    Kate J. Bowers;Shane D. Johnson

  • NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF REPEAT VICTIMIZATION

    Stephen D. Johnson;K Bowers;Alex Hirschfield

  • Spatial displacement and diffusion of benefits among geographically focused policing initiatives: a meta-analytical review

    Kate J. Bowers;Shane D. Johnson;Rob T. Guerette;Lucia Summers

  • Introducing EMMIE: an evidence rating scale to encourage mixed-method crime prevention synthesis reviews

    Shane D. Johnson;Nick Tilley;Kate J. Bowers

  • Crime displacement: what we know, what we don’t know, and what it means for crime reduction

    Shane D. Johnson;Rob T. Guerette;Kate Bowers

  • Risky Facilities: Crime Radiators or Crime Absorbers? A Comparison of Internal and External Levels of Theft

    Kate Bowers

  • Who commits near repeats? A test of the boost explanation

    KJ Bowers;SD Johnson

  • Predictive Crime Mapping: Arbitrary Grids or Street Networks?

    Gabriel Rosser;Toby Davies;Kate J. Bowers;Shane D. Johnson

  • Mapping fear of crime as a context‐dependent everyday experience that varies in space and time

    Reka Solymosi;Kate Bowers;Taku Fujiyama

  • Closing Off Opportunities for Crime: An Evaluation of Alley-Gating

    Kate J. Bowers;Shane D. Johnson;Alex F. G. Hirschfield

  • Mapping and Analysing Crime Data : Lessons from Research and Practice

    Alex Hirschfield;Kate Bowers

  • Exploring links between crime and disadvantage in north-west England: an analysis using geographical information systems

    Kate Bowers

Frequent Co-Authors

Shane D. Johnson
Shane D. Johnson University College London
Jerry H. Ratcliffe
Jerry H. Ratcliffe Temple University
Anthony A. Braga
Anthony A. Braga University of Pennsylvania
Nick Tilley
Nick Tilley University College London
Graham Farrell
Graham Farrell University of Leeds
Wim Bernasco
Wim Bernasco Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement

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