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Lawrence E. Cohen
Researcher at University of California, Davis
Publications - 38
Citations - 12872
Lawrence E. Cohen is an academic researcher from University of California, Davis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Population. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 38 publications receiving 12098 citations. Previous affiliations of Lawrence E. Cohen include University of Texas at Austin & Duke University.
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Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach
Lawrence E. Cohen,Marcus Felson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a "routine activity approach" is presented for analyzing crime rate trends and cycles. But rather than emphasizing the characteristics of offenders, with this approach, the authors concentrate upon the circumstances in which they carry out predatory criminal acts, and hypothesize that the dispersion of activities away from households and families increases the opportunity for crime and thus generates higher crime rates.
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Structural Covariates of Homicide Rates: Are There Any Invariances Across Time and Social Space?
TL;DR: In this article, a baseline regression model using 11 structural covariates is estimated for cities, metropolitan areas, and states in 1960, 1970, and 1980, and the empirical estimates of this model exhibit instability because of high levels of collinearity among several regressors.
Victimization: an exposition and test of a formal theory*
TL;DR: In this article, an opportunity theory of criminal victimization is proposed, focusing on the mediating role played by five riskfactors: exposure, guardianship, proximity to potential offenders, attractiveness of potential targets, and definitional properties of specific crimes themselves.
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Social Inequality and Predatory Criminal Victimization: An Exposition and Test of a Formal Theory
TL;DR: In this article, an opportunity theory of criminal victimization is proposed, focusing on the mediating role played by five risk factors: exposure, guardianship, proximity to potential offenders, attractiveness of potential targets, and definitional properties of specific crimes themselves.
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Human ecology and crime: A routine activity approach
Marcus Felson,Lawrence E. Cohen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how community structure generates these circumstances and apply Amos Hawley's human ecological theory in treating criminal acts as routine activities which feed upon other routine activities.