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Analysis of the burglary phenomena : problem solving unspecified temporal break and enters in the City of Burnaby

2003· dissertation· en· W177935174 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Greg Jenion

Bibliographic record

VenueSummit (Simon Fraser University) · 2003
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCrime Patterns and Interventions
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCriminal justiceRange (aeronautics)CriminologyEvent (particle physics)PhenomenonSubject (documents)PsychologyComputer scienceData scienceEngineeringEpistemology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Crime is a complex phenomenon and environmental criminology provides a powerful conceptual framework for analyzing the criminal event.Environmental criminologists begin their study of crime by asking when and where crimes occur.Burglary is a serious crime with negative psychological, emotional, and fmancial costs to the community.Temporal data are collected by criminal justice agencies and provide fairly reliable data sets.Most temporal data collected for burglary are not based on the exact time of event occurrence; instead, the victim gives the investigator an earliest and latest potential time of occurrence.This leaves a time range or window in which the crime could have occurred.Since a large amount of police incident data on burglary is range data, discarding it would ignore the majority of incidents recorded.However, decisions on how to incorporate time ranges can yield very different perceptions of the burglary event.Recent work on this subject has produced a relatively new technique called aoristic analysis, which estimates the probability of a criminal offense occurring within a certain time span.After a discussion of aoristic analysis and other conventional approaches to the range issue, it is argued the technique is a step forward from other previous temporal analysis techniques, but has inherent limitations that prevent it from being a final solution to the time "range," "window" problem.of Daythe actual time of day on a 24-hour clock (e.g.burglary took place at lpm so it would be recorded a s 13:OO hrs) to be distinguished from the minute of the day (which would be the 780th minute) Time Windowthe period between some recorded start time and some recorded end time where the exact time is not known. Time Range -See Time WindowPatternis a term used to describe recognizable interconnectedness of objects, processes or ideas.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.248
Threshold uncertainty score0.494

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.004
Science and technology studies0.0030.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.266
Teacher spread0.243 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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