Farrell, G., Tseloni, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-6443-7012 and Tilley, N.,
2016.
Signature dish: triangulation from data signatures to examine the role of security in falling crime.
Methodological Innovations, 9, pp. 1-11.
ISSN 2059-7991
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Abstract
This article describes realist evaluation research combining data signatures and theories of causal mechanism as a means of shedding light on why crime has declined in recent years. A data signature is an empirical indicator of how or why something has occurred. The use of multiple signatures – a ‘dish’ – from different angles and contexts can, if they point in the same direction, result in a form of triangulation that reduces the chance of interpretive error. The signatures identified strongly suggest that more and better security played a key role in the global 'crime drop', and in so doing, they rebut rival hypotheses.
Item Type: | Journal article | ||||
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Publication Title: | Methodological Innovations | ||||
Creators: | Farrell, G., Tseloni, A. and Tilley, N. | ||||
Publisher: | Sage | ||||
Date: | 2 March 2016 | ||||
Volume: | 9 | ||||
ISSN: | 2059-7991 | ||||
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Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||
Record created by: | Linda Sullivan | ||||
Date Added: | 09 May 2016 11:09 | ||||
Last Modified: | 19 Oct 2017 08:29 | ||||
URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/27750 |
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