Reviewing the role of outdoor lighting in achieving sustainable development goals

P Tavares, D Ingi, L Araújo, P Pinho, P Bhusal - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim at providing a healthier planet for present
and future generations. At the most recent SDG summit held in 2019, Member States …

The impact and policy relevance of street lighting for crime prevention: A systematic review based on a half‐century of evaluation research

BC Welsh, DP Farrington… - Criminology & Public …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Research Summary This article reports on an updated systematic review and meta‐
analysis of the effects of street lighting interventions on crime in public places. Following …

Effect of abandoned housing interventions on gun violence, perceptions of safety, and substance use in Black neighborhoods: a citywide cluster randomized trial

EC South, JM Macdonald, VW Tam… - JAMA internal …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Structural racism has resulted in long-standing disinvestment and dilapidated
environmental conditions in Black neighborhoods. Abandoned houses signal neglect and …

Police force size and civilian race

A Chalfin, B Hansen, EK Weisburst… - American Economic …, 2022 - aeaweb.org
We report novel empirical estimates of the race-specific effects of larger police forces in the
United States. Each additional police officer abates approximately 0.1 homicides. In per …

Neighborhood inequality and violence in Chicago, 1965-2020

P Sharkey, A Marsteller - U. Chi. L. Rev., 2022 - HeinOnline
To understand the causes and consequences of violence in the United States requires a
spatial perspective. Violence is not evenly distributed across the communities of a city but …

Can precision policing reduce gun violence? evidence from “gang takedowns” in new york city

A Chalfin, M LaForest, J Kaplan - Journal of Policy Analysis and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
During the last decade, while national homicide rates have remained flat, New York City has
experienced a second great crime decline, with gun violence declining by more than 50 …

Social vulnerability index is strongly associated with urban pediatric firearm violence: an analysis of five major US cities

AM Polcari, LE Hoefer, KM Callier… - Journal of trauma and …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND Firearm-related injury in children is a public health crisis. The Social
Vulnerability Index (SVI) identifies communities at risk for adverse effects due to natural or …

Street environments and crime around low-income and minority schools: Adopting an environmental audit tool to assess crime prevention through environmental …

S Lee, C Lee, JW Nam, AV Moudon… - Landscape and Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) suggests an association between
micro-scale environmental conditions and crime, but little empirical research exists on the …

Detecting people on the street and the streetscape physical environment from Baidu street view images and their effects on community-level street crime in a Chinese …

H Yue, H Xie, L Liu, J Chen - ISPRS International Journal of Geo …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The occurrence of street crime is affected by socioeconomic and demographic
characteristics and is also influenced by streetscape conditions. Understanding how the …

Sanction risk perceptions, coherence, and deterrence*

TC Barnum, DS Nagin, G Pogarsky - Criminology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Research from environmental criminology, policing, and related literatures consistently finds
that objective conditions related to risk of apprehension affect crime. The mechanism …