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Elizabeth Groff is a professor of Geography and
Criminology at Temple University. She holds a PhD in
Geography from the University of Maryland, College Park
(2006), and MA degrees in both Geography from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1994) and
Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of
Maryland, College Park (2005). Her expertise combines
detailed analysis of physical landscapes, geographical
research, geographic information systems analysis, and
popular culture. Her research interests include urban
security and crime mapping, the social and economic
aspects of urban development, the socio-political dynamics
of aging and changing metropolitan regions, and the
intersections of race, gender, and place. She has
published numerous articles and has presented at various
conferences throughout the country.
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Elizabeth Groff
Professor, Criminal Justice, Temple University
Research Expertise
crime and place
crime prevention
policing
agent-based modeling
Law
Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Social Psychology
Strategy and Management
Safety Research
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Sociology and Political Science
Library and Information Sciences
Computer Science Applications
Public Administration
Geography, Planning and Development
Applied Psychology
Urban Studies
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Development
About
Elizabeth Groff is a professor of Geography
and Criminology at Temple University. She
holds a PhD in Geography from the University
of Maryland, College Park (2006), and MA
degrees in both Geography from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1994) and
Criminology and Criminal Justice at the
University of Maryland, College Park (2005).
Her expertise combines detailed analysis of
physical landscapes, geographical research,
geographic information systems analysis, and
popular culture. Her research interests
include urban security and crime mapping, the
social and economic aspects of urban
development, the socio-political dynamics of
aging and changing metropolitan regions, and
the intersections of race, gender, and place.
She has published numerous articles and has
presented at various conferences throughout
the country.
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The Criminology of Place
Unknown Venue
2012
THE PHILADELPHIA FOOT PATROL EXPERIMENT: A
RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF POLICE
PATROL EFFECTIVENESS IN VIOLENT CRIME
HOTSPOTS*
Criminology
2011
Is it Important to Examine Crime Trends at
a Local “Micro” Level?: A Longitudinal
Analysis of Street to Street Variability
in Crime Trajectories
Journal of Quantitative
Criminology
2010
Hot Spots of Juvenile Crime: A
Longitudinal Study of Arrest Incidents at
Street Segments in Seattle, Washington
Journal of Quantitative
Criminology
2009
Simulation for Theory Testing and
Experimentation: An Example Using Routine
Activity Theory and Street Robbery
Journal of Quantitative
Criminology
2007
The role of neighborhood parks as crime
generators
Security Journal
2011
Criminogenic Facilities and Crime across
Street Segments in Philadelphia
Journal of Research in Crime and
Delinquency
2013
DOES WHAT POLICE DO AT HOT SPOTS MATTER?
THE PHILADELPHIA POLICING TACTICS
EXPERIMENT*
Criminology
2014
Simulating Crime to Inform Theory and
Practice
Crime Mapping Case Studies
Understanding and Controlling Hot Spots of
Crime: The Importance of Formal and
Informal Social Controls
Prevention Science
2013
Mapping an Opportunity Surface of
Residential Burglary
Journal of Research in Crime and
Delinquency
2001
Place Matters
Unknown Venue
2015
Where the Action Is at Places: Examining
Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Juvenile Crime
at Places Using Trajectory Analysis and
GIS
Putting Crime in its Place
2009
CAN HOT SPOTS POLICING REDUCE CRIME IN
URBAN AREAS? AN AGENT-BASED SIMULATION*
Criminology
2017
?Situating? Simulation to Model Human
Spatio-Temporal Interactions: An Example
Using Crime Events
Transactions in GIS
2007
Adding the Temporal and Spatial Aspects of
Routine Activities: A Further Test of
Routine Activity Theory
Security Journal
2008
Exploring ‘near’: Characterizing the
spatial extent of drinking place influence
on crime
Australian & New Zealand Journal of
Criminology
2011
Foot Patrol in Violent Crime Hot Spots:
The Longitudinal Impact of Deterrence and
Posttreatment Effects of Displacement
Criminology
2012
Citizens’ reactions to hot spots policing:
impacts on perceptions of crime, disorder,
safety and police
Journal of Experimental
Criminology
2015
State of the Art in Agent-Based Modeling
of Urban Crime: An Overview
Journal of Quantitative
Criminology
2018
Cops as treatment providers: realities and
ironies of police work in a foot patrol
experiment
Policing and Society
2013
Informal Social Control and Crime Events
Journal of Contemporary Criminal
Justice
2014
The Homicide Courts
Law and Justice in the Courts of
Classical Athens
2006
Satisfaction With Police in Violent Crime
Hot Spots
Crime & Delinquency
2015
Aligning policing and public health
promotion: insights from the world of foot
patrol
Police Practice and Research
2013
The Importance of Both Opportunity and
Social Disorganization Theory in a Future
Research Agenda to Advance Criminological
Theory and Crime Prevention at Places
Journal of Research in Crime and
Delinquency
2014
The Concentration and Stability of Drug
Activity in Seattle, Washington Using
Police and Emergency Medical Services Data
Journal of Quantitative
Criminology
2016
The Variable Impacts of Public Housing
Community Proximity on Nearby Street
Robberies
Journal of Research in Crime and
Delinquency
2011
Simulated experiments and their potential
role in criminology and criminal justice
Journal of Experimental
Criminology
2008
The Empirical Evidence for Hot Spots
Policing
Policing Problem Places
2010
Strengthening Theoretical Testing in
Criminology Using Agent-based Modeling
Journal of Research in Crime and
Delinquency
2014
Quantifying the Exposure of Street
Segments to Drinking Places Nearby
Journal of Quantitative
Criminology
2013
Integrating Distance Into Mobility
Triangle Typologies
Social Science Computer Review
2007
The Dallas patrol management experiment:
can AVL technologies be used to harness
unallocated patrol time for crime
prevention?
Journal of Experimental
Criminology
2015
Disaggregating the Journey to Homicide
Geographic Information Systems and
Crime Analysis
2005
A randomized experimental study of sharing
crime data with citizens: Do maps produce
more fear?
Journal of Experimental
Criminology
2005
Boundary Adherence during Place-based
Policing Evaluations
Journal of Research in Crime and
Delinquency
2014
Simulating Crime Prevention Strategies: A
Look at the Possibilities
Policing
2008
What You Find Depends on Where You Look
Journal of Contemporary Criminal
Justice
2014
Exploring Twitter to Analyze the Public’s
Reaction Patterns to Recently Reported
Homicides in London
PLOS ONE
2015
Exploring the relationship between foot
and car patrol in violent crime areas
Policing: An International Journal of
Police Strategies & Management
2013
Fast Food Restaurants and Convenience
Stores: Using Sales Volume to Explain
Crime Patterns in Seattle
Crime & Delinquency
2017
The evolution of crime mapping in the
United States: from the descriptive to the
analytic
Mapping and Analysing Crime Data
2001
Urban park crime: Neighborhood context and
park features
Journal of Criminal Justice
2019
Permeability across a Metropolitan Area:
Conceptualizing and Operationalizing a
Macrolevel Crime Pattern Theory
Environment and Planning A: Economy and
Space
2014
Characterizing the Spatio-Temporal Aspects
of Routine Activities and the Geographic
Distribution of Street Robbery
Artificial Crime Analysis Systems
2008
Measuring Teacher Self-Efficacy for
Integrating Computational Thinking in
Science (T-SelECTS)
Educational Innovations and Emerging
Technologies
2021
Rape guero
Oxford Music Online
2001
Explaining Developmental Crime
Trajectories at Places: A Study of "Crime
Waves" and "Crime Drops" at Micro Units of
Geography in Seattle, Washington,
1989-2004
ICPSR Data Holdings
2013
Measuring a Place’s Exposure to Facilities
Using Geoprocessing Models: An
Illustration Using Drinking Places and
Crime
Crime Modeling and Mapping Using
Geospatial Technologies
2012
Residential burglary: How the urban
environment and our lifestyles play a
contributing role
Security Journal
2014
A Longitudinal Quasi-Experimental Study of
Violence and Disorder Impacts of Urban
CCTV Camera Clusters
Criminal Justice Review
2018
How law enforcement agencies can make
geographic information technologies work
for them
GIS in Law Enforcement
2002
Seattle Study Encouraging
PsycEXTRA Dataset
1999
Examining the disorder–crime connection in
Philadelphia parks
Security Journal
2014
Perception of Crime Scale
PsycTESTS Dataset
2016
Reimagining Guardians and Guardianship
With the Advent of Body Worn Cameras
Criminal Justice Review
2018
Law enforcement agencies
The Australian Medico-Legal
Handbook
2008
Appendix C
Constitutional Law and Criminal
Justice
2009
Strategic Approaches to Community Safety
Initiative (SACSI)
Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime
Prevention
2010
Measuring the Influence of the Built
Environment on Crime at Street Segments
Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies
2017
The Criminology of Place: Key
Contributions and Commentary
Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies
2017
Police body-worn camera footage: Attitudes
toward the public right to view and police
communication
Criminal Justice Studies
2023
The Relationship between Social Distance
and Treatment Attrition for Juvenile
Offenders
Journal of Urban Affairs
2015
Metropolitan local crime clusters:
Structural concentration effects and the
systemic model
Journal of Criminal Justice
2015
Trends in Police Research: A
Cross‐Sectional Analysis of the 2001
Literature
Police Practice and Research
2004
Examining guardianship against theft
Agent-Based Modelling for
Criminological Theory Testing and
Development
2020
Burglary in a Segregated City: Race of
Offenders and Community of Offending
The Criminal Act
2015
Interactive procedural street modeling
ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 papers
2008
Tracing the effects of reducing penalties
on crime and prosecution
Journal of Criminal Justice
2021
Do We Really Need Collective Social
Process to Understand Why Crime Occurs and
Offenders Commit Crime?
Oxford Handbooks Online
2018
Spatial, Multibody Modeling and Vehicle
Dynamics Analysis of an Interim Armored
Vehicle
Design Engineering
2002
Use of Computerized Crime Mapping by Law
Enforcement in the United States,
1997-1998
ICPSR Data Holdings
2001
Strategic Approaches to Community Safety
Initiative (SACSI) Research Partnership in
Detroit, Michigan, 1999-2003
ICPSR Data Holdings
2007
Understanding crime and place: A methods
handbook. By Elizabeth R.Groff and Cory
P.Haberman, 2023. Temple University press,
Philadelphia, PA 19122. Paper ISBN:
978‐1‐4399‐2067‐1
Regional Science Policy &
Practice
2023
The Rise and Fall of Organized Crime in
the United States
Crime and Justice
2020
AAAS 2018 Annual Meeting Program
Science
2018
Inter-University Consortium for Political
and Social Research (ICPSR)
The Concise Dictionary of Crime and
Justice
2002
Practitioner to Academic: An
Interdisciplinary View from Both Sides of
the Looking Glass
Envisioning Criminology
2015
From the Editor
Journal of Research in Crime and
Delinquency
2011
The Temple of Music
University of Illinois Press
2017
Simulating Crime Event Decision Making
Oxford Handbooks Online
2017
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
2019
Quantifying Crime Prevention Potential of
Near-Repeat Burglary
Police Quarterly
2019
Using citizen notification to interrupt
near-repeat residential burglary patterns:
the micro-level near-repeat experiment
Journal of Experimental
Criminology
2019
Explaining Dosage Diffusion During Hot
Spot Patrols: An Application of Optimal
Foraging Theory to Police Officer Behavior
Justice Quarterly
2016
Education
University of Maryland, College Park
PhD, Geography / 2006
College Park, Maryland, United
States of America
University of Maryland, College Park
MA, Criminology and Criminal Justice / 2005
College Park, Maryland, United
States of America
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MA, Geography / 1994
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United
States of America
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BS, Geography / 1992
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United
States of America
Experience
Temple University
Professor / August, 2007 — Present
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