TY - JOUR AB - What are the causes of the spatial distribution of crime and its temporal variation? How does the crime rate change depending on the alteration of economic, political, judicial and police frameworks? Criminal geographical panel analyses are particularly suited to answer questions of this kind. This article explains the fundamentals of panel analysis, its potential, limitations and requirements for databases as well as its links to criminal theory. This method is then exemplarily clarified by analysing the distribution of policeregistered suspect rates in 91 districts of the German state of Hamburg between 1995 and 2009. AU - Hess, Julius AU - Jarchow, Esther DO - 10.7396/IE_2016_E ET - 9/2016 KW - panel analysis crime rate crime research LA - eng M1 - International Edition PY - 2016 SN - 1813-3495 SP - 52-63 ST - Rise and Fall in Crime Rates. Panel analysis as a method of data-driven crime research T2 - SIAK-Journal − Journal for Police Science and Practice TI - Rise and Fall in Crime Rates. Panel analysis as a method of data-driven crime research UR - http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms/BMI_SIAK/4/2/1/ie2016/files/Hess_IE_2016.pdf VL - 6 ID - 560 ER -