Objectives This updated systematic review assesses the effects of focused police crime
prevention interventions at crime hot spots. The review also examined whether focused …

Research Summary We report on the findings of an updated systematic review and meta‐
analysis of the effects of closed‐circuit television (CCTV) surveillance cameras on crime …

Proactive policing, as a strategic approach used by police agencies to prevent crime, is a
relatively new phenomenon in the United States. It developed from a crisis in confidence in …

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 …

Objectives This paper offers novel experimental evidence that violent crimes can be
successfully reduced by changing the situational environment that potential victims and …

Historically speaking, criminological theory tends to pay great attention to identifying the
various sources of criminal motivation while downplaying the opportunity to carry out crime …

Objectives Prior meta analyses of hot spots policing show that the approach reduces crime,
but report relatively small mean effect sizes based on Cohen'sd. The natural logarithm of the …

Research on the effectiveness of surveillance cameras in reducing crime suffers from
potential threats to causal validity. This paper reviews seven studies that address some of …

The purpose of this guide is to provide an overview of the use of closed-circuit television
(CCTV) systems as a problem-oriented policing response to a crime problem. This guide …

This study measures the effect of CCTV in Newark, NJ across three separate crime
categories: auto theft, theft from auto, and violent crime. CCTV viewsheds, denoting camera …