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- Title
Does CALEA accreditation serve as a signal? A look at crime analysis.
- Authors
Abner, Gordon; Ponomariov, Branco; Kim, Suyoung
- Abstract
Objective: The objective of this study is to assess whether CALEA-accredited police departments are more (or less) likely than non-CALEA-accredited police departments to conduct crime analysis after matching on factors associated with engaging in accreditation and conducting crime analysis. Methods: This study draws upon a quasi-experimental approach, cardinality matching, to estimate the relationship between CALEA accreditation status and crime analysis within municipal police departments. Results: CALEA accreditation has a positive and statistically significant association with the use of crime analysis at the 0.05 level. The estimate for the treatment in odds ratios is 4.8, meaning that the odds of using crime analysis was 4.8 times higher among CALEA-accredited municipal police departments compared to non-CALEA-accredited municipal police departments in the sample after matching. Conclusions: CALEA accreditation serves an important signal of support for conducting crime analysis relative to similarly situated non-CALEA-accredited police departments.
- Subjects
CRIME analysis; POLICE; ACCREDITATION; CRIME statistics; ODDS ratio
- Publication
Journal of Experimental Criminology, 2024, Vol 20, Issue 2, p581
- ISSN
1573-3750
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11292-022-09548-4