Background Unwanted sexual behaviours (USB) are widespread within mass transit
networks worldwide. The present study examines the effectiveness of a place-based …

Substantial evidence suggests that focussing police resources on hotspots of crime has a
discernable crime-reduction effect. However, little is known about the efficacy of proactively …

Abstract Research Summary Police are often criticized for doing “too much” or “too little”
policing in various situations. These criticisms amount to testable hypotheses about whether …

Urban street crime (USC) hotspots severely affect the residential and business
neighborhood (RBN) areas of any urban center. This study analyzes USC hotspots and …

Although the science behind hot spot policing is robust and grounded in theory,
implementation issues prevent it from becoming commonplace in everyday policing. The …

Purpose A recent body of evidence investigated repeated intimate partner violence (IPV)
using crime harm indices (the severity of victimisation), instead of crime counts (the number …

Hot spots policing is rapidly changing its evidence-base. Instead of producing more results
of one-off, conventional experiments that provide an evidence-base across police agencies …

Objectives Pair-matching with random allocation in prospective controlled trials represents a
novel and highly rigorous design. First use of the design can be traced to medicine (in 1926) …

The stack of evidence on ways in which private and public police can work collaboratively is
mounting. From what we know, when the two spheres take a co-operative approach …

This paper examines whether the intensity of Airbnb is associated with city-level crime rates.
This research sheds light on matters adjacent to current activities in public policy as cities …