Items where Author is "Francis, B."

Article

Dittrich, R. and Francis, B. and Hatzinger, R. and Katzenbeisser, W. (2012) Missing observations in paired comparison data. Statistical Modelling, 12 (2). pp. 117-143. ISSN 1471-082X

Reissland, N. and Francis, B. and Mason, J. and Lincoln, K. (2011) Do facial expressions develop before birth? PLoS ONE, 6 (8). pp. 1-7. ISSN 1932-6203

Liu, J. and Francis, B. and Soothill, K. (2011) A longitudinal study of escalation in crime seriousness. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 27 (2). pp. 175-196. ISSN 0748-4518

Francis, B. (2011) Conceptualising recidivism for prediction and risk. Report on the OSF-SA 'Recidivism and Reoffending' Conference 29 & 30 November 2010, n/a (n/a). pp. 16-21. ISSN n/a

Soothill, K. and Francis, B. (2009) Keeping the DNA link. New Law Journal, 159 (n/a). pp. 73-78. ISSN 0306-6479

Christoffersen, M. and Soothill, K. and Francis, B. (2008) Risk factors for a first-time drink-driving conviction among young men: A birth cohort study of all men born in Denmark in 1966. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 34 (4). pp. 415-425. ISSN 0740-5472

Christoffersen, M. and Soothill, K. and Francis, B. (2008) Risk factors for a first time drink-driving conviction among young males: A birth cohort study of all males born in Denmark in 1966. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 34 (4). pp. 415-425. ISSN 0740-5472

Book Section

Soothill, K. and Francis, B. (2011) Considering paradigms of crime reduction in different contexts. In: National and international perspectives on crime and policing: Towards a coherent strategy for crime reduction in South Africa beyond 2010. Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, pp. 1-17. ISBN 978-1-920422-54-7

Francis, B. and Soothill, K. (2011) Homicide in England and Wales. In: Handbook of European Homicide Research: Patterns, Explanations, and Country Studies. Springer, Berlin, pp. 287-300. ISBN 978-1-4614-0465-1

Conference or Workshop Item

Francis, B. and Liu, J. and Soothill, K. (2012) Latent transition analysis and offending lifestyle specialisation in England and Wales. In: Statistics Norway (Statistisk sentralbyrå) invited seminar series, March 2012, Oslo, Norway. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. and Soothill, K. (2012) The mortality experience of middle-class offenders - A 35-year long-term follow-up. In: Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Conference, 13 - 17 March 2012, New York, USA. (Unpublished)

Soothill, K. and Francis, B. and Humphreys, L. (2012) A typology of middle-class offenders. In: Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Conference, 13 - 17 March 2012, New York, USA. (Unpublished)

Soothill, K. and Francis, B. (2011) Considering paradigms of crime reduction in different contexts. In: British Society of Criminology Conference, 3 - 6 July 2011, Newcastle, UK. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. and Hargreaves, C. and Soothill, K. (2011) Disentangling the age, period and cohort effects on convictions for sexual offending. In: British Society of Criminology, 3 - 6 July 2011, Newcastle, UK. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. and Walby, S. and Towers, J. (2011) Estimating lifetime prevalence of intimate violence – Are the current lifetime estimates too low? In: American Society of Criminology, 16 - 19 November 2011, Washington DC, USA. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. and Soothill, K. (2011) Homicide in England and Wales: Which types of homicide are declining and which are not? In: 16th World Congress of the International Society for Criminology, 5 - 9 August 2011, Kobe, Japan. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. and Reissland, N. and Lincoln, K. (2011) Is there evidence of the development of fetal facial expressions? In: European Conference on Developmental Psychology, 23 - 27 August 2011, Bergen, Norway. (Unpublished)

Soothill, K. and Francis, B. (2011) Long-term follow-up studies: worth waiting for? A case study of middle-class offenders. In: American Society of Criminology, 16 - 19 November 2011, Washington DC, USA. (Unpublished)

Lewis, C. and Towse, A. and Francis, B. (2011) Modelling childhood development through latent transition models. In: NCRM Annual Conference, 13-14 January 2011, Guilford, Surrey, UK. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. and Dittrich, R and Hatzinger, R. (2011) Modelling ranked survey data - a new approach accounting for covariates and latent heterogeneity. In: American Sociological Association Spring Meeting, 18 - 20 May 2011, Tilberg University, Netherlands. (Unpublished)

Humphreys, L. and Francis, B. and Penn, R. (2011) New methods in visual sociology - Using web-based material and CAQDAS for social research. In: Workshop on "Visualisation and visual sociology - beyond the quantitative-qualitative divide", 30 September 2011, Lancaster, UK. (Unpublished)

Soothill, K. and Humphreys, L. and Francis, B. (2011) Predicting reconviction for middle class offenders. Do predictors change with length of follow-up? In: European Society of Criminology, 21 - 24 September 2011, Vilnius, Lithuania. (Unpublished)

Soothill, K. and Francis, B. (2011) White-collar offenders: a 35-year follow-up. In: 16th World Congress of the International Society for Criminology, 5 - 9 August 2011, Kobe, Japan. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. (2010) Criminal career specialisation for female offenders – a latent Markov approach. In: Seminar presentation at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, 7 June 2010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. (2010) Identifying criminal typologies in the presence of outliers: “Mixture models, outliers and the EM algorithm” revisited. In: Meeting on Statistical Modelling Advances for Social and Health data, 15 April 2010, Royal Statistical Society, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. (2010) Latent class analysis methods and software. In: 4th ESRC Research Methods Festival, 5 - 8 July 2010, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, UK. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. and Soothill, K. (2010) Retention and disclosure of old criminal records - data protection or protecting the public? In: Royal Statistical Society 2010 International Conference, 13 - 17 September 2010, Brighton, UK. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. (2010) Statistical analysis of microdevelopmental data: using latent transition analysis to explore developmental sequences. In: Workshop on "Theorising and measuring developmental change: the microdevelopmental (microgenetic) approach", 11 - 12 September 2010, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. and Soothill, K. (2010) Thirty years of change in homicide in England and Wales. In: 10th Conference of the European Society of Criminology, 8 - 11 September 2010, Liége, Belgium. (Unpublished)

Towse, A. and Lewis, C. and Francis, B. and Shimmon, K. and Liu, J. (2009) Using latent transition analysis to examine cognitive development. Developing Statistical Modelling in the Social Sciences. In: NCRM Annual Centre Meeting, 2009, Bristol, UK. (Unpublished)

Liu, J. and Francis, B. and Soothill, K. (2009) The study of escalation in criminal careers: (II) analyzing trajectories over time - a mixed model approach. In: American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, 4 - 7 November 2009, Philadelphia, USA. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. and Soothill, K. (2008) Criminal Lifestyle Specialization in Criminal Careers in England and Wales. In: American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, 12 - 15 November 2008, St Louis, USA. (Unpublished)

Soothill, K. and Francis, B. (2008) Enduring Risk Revisited: Do Ex-offenders ever become Like Non-offenders? In: American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, 12 - 15 November 2008, St Louis, USA. (Unpublished)

Soothill, K. and Francis, B. (2008) Enduring risk revisited: Assessing escalation to homicide. In: British Society of Criminology Conference, 9 - 11 July 2008, Huddersfield, UK. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. and Soothill, K. and Liu, J. (2008) Escalation in criminal convictions: Measuring offence seriousness and identifying patterns. In: 8th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, 2 - 5 September 2008, Edinburgh, UK. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. (2008) International peer review: The EUROCORES HumVIB programme. In: European Science Foundation Peer Review Workshop, 10 - 11 March 2008, The Hague, The Netherlands. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. (2008) Latent class and latent transitions for micro-level data in longitudinal studies. In: The British Psychological Society Workshop on Analysing Developmental Change, 31 August, 2008, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, UK. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. (2008) Latent classes and Transitions. In: ESRC Research Methods Festival 2008, July 2008, Oxford, UK. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. (2008) Patterns, trajectories and typologies in criminal careers. In: Royal Statistical Society Workshop on the analysis of Criminal Career data, 24 January 2008, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Dittrich, R. and Francis, B. and Hatzinger, R. and Katzenbeisser, W. (2008) The Problem of Missing Observations in Paired Comparisons Experiments. In: RC33 : 7th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, 1 - 5 September 2008, Naples, Italy. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. (2008) Statistical modelling of conviction data - challenging some criminological concepts in criminal careers. In: 2nd Annual Applied Statistics Education and Research Collaboration Research Conference, 2 - 3 December 2008, Wollongong, Australia. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. and Liu, J. and Soothill, K. (2008) Using the Offenders Index to investigate patterns of offending. In: 13th Government Statistical Service Methodology Conference, 23 June 2008, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Gayle, V. and Francis, B. (2008) The ‘changing’ nature of social inequality – how are young people’s attitudes to school stratified and how are they changing? In: Social Stratification Research Seminar, 10 - 12 September 2008, Cambridge, UK. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. and Soothill, K. and Liu, J. (2007) Assessing changes in offending behaviour in a national cohort - An application of latent transition analysis. In: American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, 14 - 17 November 2007, Atlanta, USA. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. and Humphreys, L. (2007) Assessing crime seriousness - methods and models using court data. In: Royal Statistical Society Conference, 16 - 20 July 2007, York, UK. (Unpublished)

Ackerley, E. and Soothill, K. and Francis, B. (2007) Blackmail: a criminal profile of persons convicted 1979-2001. In: British Society of Criminology Conference, September 2007, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. and Humphreys, L. and Penn, R. (2007) Changes in attitudes to post-materialism over time using longitudinal ranked data. In: British Sociological Association Annual Conference, 12 - 14 April 2007, University of East London. (Unpublished)

Soothill, K. and Francis, B. and Liu, J. (2007) Co-convictions and specialisation in criminal careers - a modest proposal. In: European Society of Criminology Conference, 26 - 29 September 2007, Bologna, italy. (Unpublished)

Liu, J. and Francis, B. and Soothill, K. (2007) Disentangling age, period and cohort effects in criminal typologies. In: European Society of Criminology Conference, 26 - 29 September 2007, Bologna, italy. (Unpublished)

Christoffersen, M. and Hussain, A. and Soothill, K. and Francis, B. (2007) Living in a disadvantaged area, poverty, ethnic minorities and crime: A longitudinal study of criminality among 15 to 23 year old Danish men born in 1980. In: 7th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, 26 - 29 September 2007, Bologna, Italy. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. (2007) Modelling preferences in the presence of missing data. In: Royal Statistical Society Conference, 16 - 20 July 2007, York, UK. (Unpublished)

Blokland, A. and Francis, B. and Nieuwbeerta, P. and Soothill, K. (2007) Patterns and pathways of long-term criminal careers. In: 7th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, 26 - 29 September 2007, Bologna, italy. (Unpublished)

Soothill, K. and Francis, B. and Liu, J. (2007) Threats to kill: Does the dog that barks also bite? In: American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, 14 - 17 November 2007, Atlanta, USA. (Unpublished)

Soothill, K. and Francis, B. and Liu, J. (2007) The importance of co-convictions: a demonstration study. In: Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Conference, 13 - 17 March 2007, Seattle, USA. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. and Humphreys, L. and Soothill, K. and Bezzina, A. (2006) Assessing offence seriousness through criminal records – the UK experience. In: European Society of Criminology conference, 26 - 29 August 2006, Tubingen, Germany. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. and Pennoni, F. and Soothill, K. (2006) Assessing transitions in criminal career behaviour: methodological approaches. In: European Society of Criminology conference, 26 - 29 August 2006, Tubingen, Germany. (Unpublished)

Ackerley, E. and Humphreys, L. and Soothill, K. and Francis, B. (2006) Changing patterns of offending behaviour among young people 1963-1999. In: British Society of Criminology Conference, July 2006, Glasgow, Scotland. (Unpublished)

Soothill, K. and Francis, B. and Liu, J. (2006) Exploring the inter-relationships between serious types of crime. In: International Symposium on Forensic Sciences, February 2006, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India. (Unpublished)

Liu, J. and Francis, B. and Soothill, K. (2006) Kidnapping: Assessing the likelihood of subsequent homicide, rape or kidnap following a first kidnap conviction in England and Wales. In: British Society of Criminology Conference, July 2006, Glasgow. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. and Dittrich, R. and Hatzinger, R. and Mair, P. (2006) Latent classes for preference data. In: Latent Variable Methods in the Health Sciences conference, September 2006, Perugia, Italy. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. (2006) Modelling microgenetic trajectories – can we identify patterns of behaviour? In: ESRC Seminar "Using the Microgenetic Method to Investigate Cognitive Development", April 2006, St Andrews, Scotland. (Unpublished)

Soothill, K. and Francis, B. and Liu, J. (2006) Probing the inter-relationships between serious types of crime. In: American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, 1 - 4 November 2006, Los Angeles, USA. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. (2006) Resources for survey and statistical analysis. In: ESRC Research Methods Festival 2006, 17 - 20 July 2010, St Catherine's College, Oxford. (Unpublished)

Blokland, A. and Francis, B. and Nieuwbeerta, P. and Soothill, K. (2006) Specialization, versatility and escalation in long-term criminal careers. In: American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, 1 - 4 November 2006, Los Angeles, USA. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. (2006) What is latent class analysis? In: ESRC Research Methods Festival 2006, 17 - 20 July 2006, St Catherine College, Oxford. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. and Soothill, K. and Ackerley, E. (2006) The trajectories and patterns of gendered criminal careers. In: American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, 1 - 4 November 2006, Los Angeles, USA. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. and Soothill, K. and Pennoni, F. (2005) Classifying patterns of criminal activity: a latent class approach to UK longitudinal conviction records. In: American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, 15 - 19 November 2005, Toronto, Canada. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. and Soothill, K. and Harman, J. (2005) Homicide and the seasons. In: European Society of Criminology Conference, 31 August - 3 September 2005, Krakow, Poland. (Unpublished)

Francis, B. and Dittrich, R. and Hatzinger, R. (2005) Mixture models for heterogeneity in ranked data. In: 3rd World Conference on Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 27 - 31 October 2005, Limassol, Cyprus. (Unpublished)