Greenspace enhances quality of life for urban residents in many ways, but it may also
produce unexpected and undesired consequences. For example, a growing literature is …

Abstract UN Sustainable Development Goals (eg, Goal 16) have highlighted the importance
of using policy tools (eg, through urban planning) to prevent crimes. Existing evidence of the …

Objectives Homicide rate is associated with a large variety of factors and therefore unevenly
distributed over time and space. This study aims to explore homicide patterns and their …

In post-pandemic, climate-changing societies, the presence of urban greenspace assumes
paramount functions, at the same time that socio-economic crises and shocks augment …

Although the availability of natural space is found to be associated with the reduction of
neighborhood-level violent crimes, such relationship is often confounded by heightened …

Literature shows that psychological phenomena, including values (eg, individualism vs.
collectivism), personality, and behaviors (eg, prosocial and aggressive behavior), are …

Urban greenspace (UGS) has been recently linked to public safety. Criminologists, however,
have been largely absent from the discussion about this association, despite having …

The urban built environment and sociodemographic characteristics have complex
relationships with urban crime. However, previous studies have had limitations such as …

Purpose This paper aims to explore how environmental employment can promote
desistance among criminalised children. Research demonstrates that being immersed in …

As homicide rates spike across the United States, researchers nominate diverse causes
such as temperature, city greenness, structural racism, inequality, poverty and more. While …