Courses Taught
Number | Name | Level |
|---|---|---|
CJ 3602 | Evidence-Based Policing | Undergraduate |
CJ 8232 | Crime Mapping | Graduate |
CJ 8320 | Seminar in Criminal Justice Policy | Graduate |
Selected Publications
Recent
Ratcliffe, J. (2021). Policing and public health calls for service in Philadelphia. Crime Science, 10(1). doi: 10.1186/s40163-021-00141-0.
Ratcliffe, J., Taylor, R., Askey, A., Thomas, K., Grasso, J., Bethel, K., Fisher, R., & Koehnlein, J. (2021). The Philadelphia predictive policing experiment. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 17(1), 15-41. doi: 10.1007/s11292-019-09400-2.
Taylor, R. & Ratcliffe, J. (2020). Was the pope to blame? Statistical powerlessness and the predictive policing of micro-scale randomized control trials. Criminology and Public Policy, 19(3), 965-996. doi: 10.1111/1745-9133.12514.
Weisburd, D., Majmundar, M., Aden, H., Braga, A., Bueermann, J., Cook, P., Goff, P., Harmon, R., Haviland, A., Lum, C., Manski, C., Mastrofski, S., Meares, T., Nagin, D., Owens, E., Raphael, S., Ratcliffe, J., & Tyler, T. (2019). Proactive Policing: a Summary of the Report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Asian Journal of Criminology, 14(2), 145-177. doi: 10.1007/s11417-019-09284-1.
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.
Ratcliffe, J., Lattanzio, M., Kikuchi, G., & Thomas, K. (2019). A partially randomized field experiment on the effect of an acoustic gunshot detection system on police incident reports. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 15(1), 67-76. doi: 10.1007/s11292-018-9339-1.
Ratcliffe, J. & Kikuchi, G. (2019). Harm-focused offender triage and prioritization: a Philadelphia case study. Policing, 42(1), 59-73. doi: 10.1108/PIJPSM-08-2018-0118.
Ratcliffe, J., Taylor, R., & Fisher, R. (2019). Conflicts and congruencies between predictive policing and the patrol officer’s craft. Policing and Society. doi: 10.1080/10439463.2019.1577844.
Wheeler, A. & Ratcliffe, J. (2018). A simple weighted displacement difference test to evaluate place based crime interventions. Crime Science, 7(1). doi: 10.1186/s40163-018-0085-5.
Haberman, C., Sorg, E., & Ratcliffe, J. (2018). The Seasons They Are a Changin’: Testing for Seasonal Effects of Potentially Criminogenic Places on Street Robbery. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 55(3), 425-459. doi: 10.1177/0022427818758375.
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.
Haberman, C., Sorg, E., & Ratcliffe, J. (2017). Assessing the Validity of the Law of Crime Concentration Across Different Temporal Scales. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 33(3), 547-567. doi: 10.1007/s10940-016-9327-4.
Johnson, L. & Ratcliffe, J. (2017). A partial test of the impact of a casino on neighborhood crime. Security Journal, 30(2), 437-453. doi: 10.1057/sj.2014.28.
Ratcliffe, J., Perenzin, A., & Sorg, E. (2017). Operation Thumbs Down: A quasi-experimental evaluation of an FBI gang takedown in South Central Los Angeles. Policing, 40(2), 442-458. doi: 10.1108/PIJPSM-01-2016-0004.