Elizabeth Groff

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Elizabeth Groff

  • College of Liberal Arts

    • Criminal Justice

      • Professor

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

CJ 2597

Criminal Justice Research Methods

Undergraduate

CJ 3402

Street-Level Criminology

Undergraduate

CJ 3902

Honors: Street-Level Criminology

Undergraduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Groff, E., Haberman, C., & Wood, J. (2020). The effects of body-worn cameras on police-citizen encounters and police activity: evaluation of a pilot implementation in Philadelphia, PA. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 16(4), 463-480. doi: 10.1007/s11292-019-09383-0.

  • Groff, E. & Taniguchi, T. (2019). Quantifying Crime Prevention Potential of Near-Repeat Burglary. Police Quarterly, 22(3), 330-359. doi: 10.1177/1098611119828052.

  • Taylor, R., Haberman, C., & Groff, E. (2019). Urban park crime: Neighborhood context and park features. Journal of Criminal Justice, 64. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2019.101622.

  • Groff, E. & Taniguchi, T. (2019). Using citizen notification to interrupt near-repeat residential burglary patterns: the micro-level near-repeat experiment. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 15(2), 115-149. doi: 10.1007/s11292-018-09350-1.

  • Ratcliffe, J. & Groff, E. (2019). A Longitudinal Quasi-Experimental Study of Violence and Disorder Impacts of Urban CCTV Camera Clusters. Criminal Justice Review, 44(2), 148-164. doi: 10.1177/0734016818811917.

  • Groff, E., Johnson, S., & Thornton, A. (2019). State of the Art in Agent-Based Modeling of Urban Crime: An Overview. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 35(1), 155-193. doi: 10.1007/s10940-018-9376-y.

  • Wood, J. & Groff, E. (2019). Reimagining Guardians and Guardianship With the Advent of Body Worn Cameras. Criminal Justice Review, 44(1), 60-75. doi: 10.1177/0734016818814895.

  • Askey, A., Taylor, R., Groff, E., & Fingerhut, A. (2018). Fast Food Restaurants and Convenience Stores: Using Sales Volume to Explain Crime Patterns in Seattle. Crime and Delinquency, 64(14), 1836-1857. doi: 10.1177/0011128717714792.

  • Groff, E. (2018). Do we really need collective social process to understand why crime occurs and offenders commit crime? In The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Criminology (pp. 105-118).

  • Sorg, E., Wood, J., Groff, E., & Ratcliffe, J. (2017). Explaining Dosage Diffusion During Hot Spot Patrols: An Application of Optimal Foraging Theory to Police Officer Behavior. Justice Quarterly, 34(6), 1044-1068. doi: 10.1080/07418825.2016.1244286.

  • Hibdon, J., Telep, C., & Groff, E. (2017). The Concentration and Stability of Drug Activity in Seattle, Washington Using Police and Emergency Medical Services Data. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 33(3), 497-517. doi: 10.1007/s10940-016-9302-0.

  • Weisburd, D., Groff, E., & Yang, S. (2017). The criminology of place: Key contributions and commentary. Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, 15(1), 61-76. doi: 10.1093/jrls/jlx015.

  • Groff, E. (2017). Measuring the influence of the built environment on crime at street segments. Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, 15(1), 44-54. doi: 10.1093/jrls/jlx005.

  • Weisburd, D., Braga, A., Groff, E., & Wooditch, A. (2017). CAN HOT SPOTS POLICING REDUCE CRIME IN URBAN AREAS? AN AGENT-BASED SIMULATION*. Criminology, 55(1), 137-173. doi: 10.1111/1745-9125.12131.