Objectives The present study tests hypotheses regarding the moderating influence of
neighborhood-level criminal opportunity on the relationship between crime generators and …

Characterized both by its interdisciplinary and its applied nature, crime prevention is
influenced by diverse fields such as psychology, sociology, criminology, health care, urban …

This article contributes to the understanding of e-government collaboration, value co-
creation and co-destruction when using information systems (IS) artifacts. This is achieved …

In order to confront challenges related to austerity, globalization and ageing, contemporary
western governments feel the urge to socially innovate. In social innovation the role of …

Rural policing, with a few notable exceptions, has been largely absent from the geographic
and criminology literature. Yet, examining rural policing is important for revealing details …

Diversion is a prevalent alternative to traditional criminal justice processing, especially at the
pre-trial stage. More recently, pre-arrest diversion has been implemented to avert the …

Research Summary We examined Seattle, Washington's Neighborhood Matching Fund
(NMF), a unique neighborhood improvement program that provides city funding for projects …

This paper examines both positivist and constructivist approaches to vandalism prevention
in tourism. It proposes a framework, consistent with the constructivist paradigm, for reducing …

There are an estimated 8000 Police Support Volunteers (PSVs) in England and Wales,
contributing around 650,000 hours each year to an expanding variety of tasks to support …

I argue that the social theory of Georg Simmel can be used to illustrate certain limitations to
the potential of democratic policing. Simmel makes a number of claims about trust, secrecy …