caa a22 4500 463170768 CHVBK 20180406164812.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10940-007-9028-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10940-007-9028-0 Community Variation in Crime Clearance: A Multilevel Analysis with Comments on Assessing Police Performance [Elektronische Daten] [Paul-Philippe Paré, Richard Felson, Marc Ouimet] We use data from the Province of Quebec to examine how the characteristics of a crime and the community context in which it occurs affect the likelihood that it will be cleared by the police. Based on a sample of 362,295 crime incidents clustered in 93 communities, multilevel analyses reveal that the police are more likely to clear crimes in small communities than in large urban areas and in communities with greater levels of poverty. Workload is not very important, having only a slight effect on the clearance of misdemeanors. The fact that offenders are much more likely to evade the law in some communities than others may have important implications for deterrence. Two methods to improve the evaluation of police departments at crime clearance are also proposed. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007 Community size nationallicence Crime clearance nationallicence Police nationallicence Poverty nationallicence Workload nationallicence Paré Paul-Philippe Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, N6A 5C2, London, ON, Canada aut Felson Richard Crime, Law, and Justice Program, Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA aut Ouimet Marc School of Criminology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada aut Journal of Quantitative Criminology Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 23/3(2007-09-01), 243-258 0748-4518 23:3<243 2007 23 10940 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-007-9028-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-007-9028-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Paré Paul-Philippe Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, N6A 5C2, London, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Felson Richard Crime, Law, and Justice Program, Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ouimet Marc School of Criminology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Quantitative Criminology Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 23/3(2007-09-01), 243-258 0748-4518 23:3<243 2007 23 10940 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer