Sophie Curtis-Ham

About Sophie Curtis-Ham

Sophie Curtis-Ham, With an exceptional h-index of 7 and a recent h-index of 7 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Waikato, specializes in the field of Investigative Psychology, Environmental Criminology, Evidence Based Policing.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Forewarned is forearmed: the hidden curriculum of working with police crime data

Familiar Locations and Similar Activities: Examining the Contributions of Reliable and Relevant Knowledge in Offenders’ Crime Location Choices

Communicating the ‘stories’ of policing evaluations through theories of change: a case study using New Zealand Police’s Tactical Response Model

Locks, lights, and lines of sight: an RCT evaluating the impact of a CPTED intervention on repeat burglary victimisation

Relationships between offenders’ crime locations and different prior activity locations as recorded in police data

The Mongrel Mob or Head Hunters? The association between neighbourhood-level factors on different types of gang membership in Aotearoa/New Zealand

The importance of importance sampling: Exploring methods of sampling from alternatives in discrete choice models of crime location choice

A new Geographic Profiling Suspect Mapping And Ranking Technique for crime investigations: GP‐SMART

Sophie Curtis-Ham Information

University

Position

PhD student ; Researcher New Zealand Police

Citations(all)

367

Citations(since 2020)

353

Cited By

55

hIndex(all)

7

hIndex(since 2020)

7

i10Index(all)

6

i10Index(since 2020)

6

Email

University Profile Page

Google Scholar

Sophie Curtis-Ham Skills & Research Interests

Investigative Psychology

Environmental Criminology

Evidence Based Policing

Top articles of Sophie Curtis-Ham

Forewarned is forearmed: the hidden curriculum of working with police crime data

2023/10

Sophie Curtis-Ham
Sophie Curtis-Ham

H-Index: 3

Lisa Tompson
Lisa Tompson

H-Index: 17

Familiar Locations and Similar Activities: Examining the Contributions of Reliable and Relevant Knowledge in Offenders’ Crime Location Choices

International Criminal Justice Review

2024/4/8

Sophie Curtis-Ham
Sophie Curtis-Ham

H-Index: 3

Communicating the ‘stories’ of policing evaluations through theories of change: a case study using New Zealand Police’s Tactical Response Model

2024/3

Locks, lights, and lines of sight: an RCT evaluating the impact of a CPTED intervention on repeat burglary victimisation

Journal of Experimental Criminology

2023/6

Sophie Curtis-Ham
Sophie Curtis-Ham

H-Index: 3

Relationships between offenders’ crime locations and different prior activity locations as recorded in police data

Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology

2023/3

Sophie Curtis-Ham
Sophie Curtis-Ham

H-Index: 3

The Mongrel Mob or Head Hunters? The association between neighbourhood-level factors on different types of gang membership in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Journal of Criminology

2022/12

Sophie Curtis-Ham
Sophie Curtis-Ham

H-Index: 3

The importance of importance sampling: Exploring methods of sampling from alternatives in discrete choice models of crime location choice

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

2021/7/31

Sophie Curtis-Ham
Sophie Curtis-Ham

H-Index: 3

A new Geographic Profiling Suspect Mapping And Ranking Technique for crime investigations: GP‐SMART

Journal of investigative psychology and offender profiling

2022/10

Gang Membership and Gang Crime in New Zealand: A National Study Identifying Spatial Risk Factors

Criminal Justice and Behavior

2022/8

Sophie Curtis-Ham
Sophie Curtis-Ham

H-Index: 3

Spatial Signatures and Mental Maps: Using offenders’ activity locations to enhance geographic profiling for crime investigations

2022

Sophie Curtis-Ham
Sophie Curtis-Ham

H-Index: 3

Measuring Harm with Crime Harm Indices

2022

Sophie Curtis-Ham
Sophie Curtis-Ham

H-Index: 3

Considerations for Developing Predictive Spatial Models of Crime and New Methods for Measuring Their Accuracy

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

2021/9

Chaitanya Joshi
Chaitanya Joshi

H-Index: 3

Sophie Curtis-Ham
Sophie Curtis-Ham

H-Index: 3

A global analysis of the impact of COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions on crime

Nature Human Behaviour

2021/7

A National Examination of the Spatial Extent and Similarity of Offenders’ Activity Spaces Using Police Data

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

2021/1/23

Sophie Curtis-Ham
Sophie Curtis-Ham

H-Index: 3

A framework for estimating crime location choice based on awareness space

Crime Science

2020/12

Sophie Curtis-Ham
Sophie Curtis-Ham

H-Index: 3

Devon Polaschek
Devon Polaschek

H-Index: 30

Considerations for developing predictive models of crime and new methods for measuring their accuracy

arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.08008

2020/6/14

Chaitanya Joshi
Chaitanya Joshi

H-Index: 3

Sophie Curtis-Ham
Sophie Curtis-Ham

H-Index: 3

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