Background In recent years, crime scholars and practitioners have pointed to the potential benefits of focusing crime prevention efforts on crime places. A number of studies suggest …
Policing in America, Ninth Edition, provides a thorough analysis of the key issues in policing today, and offers an issues-oriented discussion focusing on critical concerns such as …
Research identifies various place features (eg, bars, schools, public transportation stops) that generate or attract crime. What is less clear is how the spatial influence of these place …
We systematically review the effectiveness of police presence. In doing so, we investigate concepts of police presence and differences between reported effects. Using the Preferred …
Abstract Research Summary The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment (KCPPE) was seen by its developers to have produced “consistent evidence of the lack of effects of any …
B Turchan, AA Braga - Aggression and Violent Behavior, 2024 - Elsevier
Violence is highly concentrated in a small number of very specific “hot spot” locations within cities. The concentration of violence at these places tends to be stable over extended time …
Police patrol is an effective crime prevention tool and boosts public confidence in urban security. Many interesting decision making problems appear in route design, resource …
Recent systematic reviews on proactive policing interventions illustrate the potential effectiveness of these strategies for reducing crime and disorder. However, many proactive …
DS Lawrence - Criminology & Public Policy, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Research Summary This study employed a microsynthetic control method to evaluate the impact of the newly introduced bicycle patrol unit in the Kensington …