The adoption of a crime harm index: A scoping literature review

Teun van Ruitenburg; Stijn Ruiter

doi:10.1080/15614263.2022.2125873

The adoption of a crime harm index: A scoping literature review

Teun van Ruitenburg^*, Stijn Ruiter

^*Corresponding author for this work

Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR)

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Abstract

An emerging line of research explores how calculating the harm associated with different types of crime serves as a method to measure crime across times, places and people. A crime harm index (CHI) is suggested to produce a more reliable bottom line indicator of public safety and it would allow law enforcement agencies to invest their scarce resources in proportion to the harm caused by various types of crimes. This scoping literature review maps the literature on crime harm indices published after 2006 by answering the following research questions: (1) what is the rationale for a CHI, (2) what are the possible ways to operationalize a CHI; (3) how can a CHI be used in crime analysis; (4) what are the general outcomes of the studies using a CHI; (5) what are the known challenges and critiques of a CHI and (6) what research gaps related to CHI are expressed in this field of research?.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	423–445
Number of pages	23
Journal	Police Practice and Research
Volume	24
Issue number	4
Early online date	8 Oct 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/15614263.2022.2125873
Publication status	Published - 2023

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Funding Information:
This research was carried out within the What Works in Policing research programme of the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) and funded by the Netherlands Police. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript. The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. They also thank the respondents that participated in an online survey among the authors of the included studies in this literature review for sharing information on additional relevant (grey) literature that was initially not captured by the search strategy.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Keywords

Crime
harm
index
literature review
resource allocation

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