Items where Author is "Francis, B"

Francis, B (2011) What is latent class analysis? In: Presentation to the Social Research Association, 12 January 2011, Nuffield Foudation, London. (Unpublished)

Francis, B and Soothill, K (2010) Forty years of change in blackmail convictions. In: 47th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, 23 - 27 February 2010, San Diego, California, USA. (Unpublished)

Francis, B (2010) Identifying criminal typologies in the presence of outliers. In: Statistical Modelling and Inference conference, 2 - 4 February 2010, Brisbane, Australia. (Unpublished)

Soothill, K and Francis, B (2010) Keeping DNA profiles for innocent people. In: 47th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, 23 - 27 February 2010, San Diego, California, USA. (Unpublished)

Soothill, K and Francis, B (2010) Policing and utilizing data. In: 47th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, 23 - 27 February 2010, San Diego, California, USA. (Unpublished)

Soothill, K and Francis, B (2010) The debate rumbles on: The measurement tail is now wagging the dog. New Law Journal, 7401 (n/a). pp. 94-95. ISSN 0306-6479

Francis, B and Hargreaves, C and Soothill, K (2010) Changing patterns of sex offender specialization and recidivism. In: American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, 17 - 20 November 2010, San Francisco, USA. (Unpublished)

Francis, B and Soothill, K (2010) Conceptualising recidivism for prediction and risk studies. In: The Open Society Foundation: Two-day expert meeting focussed on defining and measuring recidivism in South Africa., 29 - 30 November 2010, Johannesburg, South Africa. (Unpublished)

Soothill, K and Francis, B (2010) Considering paradigms of crime reduction in different contexts. In: Towards a coherent strategy for crime reduction in South Africa beyond 2010, 1 - 2 December 2010, Johannesburg, South Africa. (Unpublished)

Francis, B and Liu, J and Soothill, K (2010) Criminal lifestyle specialization: female offending in England and Wales. International Criminal Justice Review, 20 (2). pp. 188-204. ISSN 1556-3855

Liu, J and Francis, B and Soothill, K (2010) Escalation in offending: a growth mixture modelling approach with two temporal scales. In: American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, 17 - 20 November 2010, San Francisco, USA. (Unpublished)

Soothill, K and Christoffersen, M and Hussain, MA and Francis, B (2010) Exploring paradigms of crime reduction: an empirical longitudinal study. British Journal of Criminology, 50 (2). pp. 222-238. ISSN 0007-0955

Sharples, S and Francis, B (2010) Joint developmental trajectories of victimisation and offending in young people. In: American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, 17 - 20 November 2010, San Francisco, USA. (Unpublished)

Francis, B and Dittrich, R and Hatzinger, R (2010) Modeling heterogeneity in ranked responses by nonparametric maximum likelihood: how do Europeans get their scientific knowledge? Annals of Applied Statistics, 4 (4). pp. 2181-2202. ISSN 1932-6157

Wallace, S and Harris, D and Francis, B and Soothill, K and Knight, R (2010) Pathways to sexual dangerousness. In: American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, 17 - 20 November 2010, San Francisco, USA. (Unpublished)

Soothill, K and Francis, B (2010) Probing sex offender recidivism studies. In: The Open Society Foundation: Two-day expert meeting focussed on defining and measuring recidivism in South Africa., 29 - 30 November 2010, Johannesburg, South Africa. (Unpublished)

Soothill, K and Francis, B (2010) Sex offender recidivism: a reappraisal. In: American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, 17 - 20 November 2010, San Francisco, USA. (Unpublished)

Walker, P and Francis, B and Walker, L (2010) The brightness-weight illusion: darker objects look heavier but feel lighter. Experimental Psychology, 57 (6). pp. 462-469. ISSN 1618-3169

Soothill, K and Liu, J and Francis, B (2010) The importance of co-convictions in predicting dangerous recidivism: blackmail and kidnapping as a demonstration study. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 10 (1). pp. 23-36. ISSN 1748-8958

Reissland, N and Francis, B (2010) The quality of fetal arm movements as indicators of fetal stress. Early Human Development, 86 (12). pp. 813-816. ISSN 0378-3782

Soothill, K and Francis, B (2009) Keeping information on police databases - confronting a dilemma. Criminal Law and Justice Weekly, 173 (n/a). n/a-n/a. ISSN 1759-7943

Soothill, K and Francis, B (2009) When do ex-offenders become like non-offenders? Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 48 (4). pp. 373-387. ISSN 0265-5527

Francis, B (2009) Random effects models and partially ranked preferences - examining changes in post-materialism over time. In: Challenges for Democracy in a Global Era: 59th Political Studies Association Annual Conference, 7 - 9 April 2009, Manchester University, UK. (Unpublished)

Humphreys, L and Francis, B (2009) Developing numeracy in criminology students through crime data. In: CETL-MSOR proceedings 2008. Maths, Stats and OR Network, pp. 51-56. ISBN 978-0-9555914-5-7

Francis, B and Soothill, K (2009) Millions of threats to kill but only thousands of convictions? In: European Society of Criminology Conference, 9 - 12 September 2009, Ljubljana, Slovenia. (Unpublished)

Wood, J and Francis, B (2009) Public perceptions of offender dangerousness - views of young adults in the UK. NCRM Working Paper. Lancaster University. (Unpublished)

Aitkin, M and Francis, B and Hinde, J and Darnell, R (2009) Statistical Modelling in R. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-921913-1

Francis, B and Liu, J (2009) Studying specialisation and escalation using the offenders index. In: ESDS Government Research Conference: Crime, Safety & Community, 18 November 2009, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Peelo, M and Francis, B (2009) Tackling mixed messages: embedding advanced numeracy in graduate identities. MSOR connections, 9 (4). pp. 23-27. ISSN 1473-4869

Francis, B and Soothill, K (2009) Threats to kill and subsequent homicide: do dogs that bark also bite? In: British Society of Criminology Conference, 30 June 2009, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK. (Unpublished)

Soothill, K and Fitzpatrick, C and Francis, B (2009) Understanding Criminal Careers. Willan publishing. ISBN 978-1-84392-503-3

Soothill, K and Francis, B (2009) When does the risk of recidivism decrease to that of non-offenders? In: European Society of Criminology Conference, 9 - 12 September 2009, Ljubljana, Slovenia. (Unpublished)

Liu, J and Francis, B and Soothill, K (2009) The study of escalation in criminal careers: analysing escalation trajectories over time - a mixed methods approach. In: European Society of Criminology, 9 - 12 September 2009, Ljubljana, Slovenia. (Unpublished)

Francis, B and Liu, J and Soothill, K (2009) The study of escalation in criminal careers: conceptualizing escalation at the individual level. In: American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, 4 - 7 November 2009, Philadelphia, USA. (Unpublished)

Soothill, K and Liu, J and Francis, B (2008) Killer instinct: Can convictions for serious offences indicate who is more likely to kill? Police Review, 116 (n/a). p. 6004. ISSN 0309-1414

Bartolucci, F and Pennoni, F and Francis, B (2007) UNSPECIFIED Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 170 (1). 115 -132. ISSN 0964-1998

Francis, B and Soothill, K and Piquero, A (2007) Estimation issues and generational changes in lengths of criminal careers. Crime & Delinquency, 53 (1). pp. 84-105. ISSN 0011-1287

Soothill, K and Francis, B and Ackerley, E (2007) Kidnapping: A Criminal Profile of Persons Convicted 1979 - 2001. Behavioural Sciences and the Law, 25 (1). pp. 69-84. ISSN 0735-3936

Dittrich, R and Francis, B and Hatzinger, R and Katzenbeisser, W (2007) On the treatment of missing observations in paired comparison experiments. In: Proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Statistical Modelling. Barcelona, pp. 215-220. ISBN 978-84-690-5943-2

Muldoon, K and Lewis, C and Francis, B (2007) Using Cardinality to Compare Quantities: The Role of Social-Cognitive Conflict in Early Numeracy. Developmental Science, 10 (5). pp. 694-711. ISSN 1363-755X

Christoffersen, M and Soothill, K and Francis, B (2007) Violent Life Events and Social Disadvantage: A Systematic Study of the Social Background of Various Kinds of Lethal Violence, Other Violent Crime, Suicide, and Suicide Attempts. Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention, 8 (2). pp. 157-184. ISSN 1404-3858

Dittrich, R and Francis, B and Hatzinger, R and Katzenbeisser, W (2007) A paired comparison approach for the analysis of sets of Likert-scale responses. Statistical Modelling, 7 (1). pp. 3-28. ISSN 1471-082X

Dittrich, R and Francis, B and Hatzinger, R and Katzenbeisser, W (2006) Modelling dependency in multivariate paired comparisons: a log-linear approach. Mathematical Social Sciences, 52 (2). pp. 197-209. ISSN 0165-4896