In the United States, awareness is increasing that medical care alone cannot adequately
improve health overall or reduce health disparities without also addressing where and how …

▪ Abstract This paper assesses and synthesizes the cumulative results of a new
“neighborhood-effects” literature that examines social processes related to problem …

This article seeks to develop transformative social and emotional learning (SEL), a form of
SEL intended to promote equity and excellence among children, young people, and adults …

Largely overlooked in the theoretical and empirical literature on the crime decline is a long
tradition of research in criminology and urban sociology that considers how violence is …

Objective This paper examines the epidemiology of fatal and nonfatal firearm violence in the
United States. Trends over two decades in homicide, assault, self-directed and unintentional …

Democratic policing today is a widely used approach to policing not only in Western
societies but increasingly around the world. Yet it is rarely defined and it is little understood …

The study of crime has focused primarily on why particular people commit crime or why
specific communities have higher crime levels than others. In The Criminology of Place …

Why do certain people commit acts of crime? Why does crime happen in certain places?
Presenting an ambitious new study designed to test a pioneering new theory of the causes …

Although there is now a large body of empirical research on neighbourhood effects, we
know relatively little about the causal mechanisms responsible for relationships between …

This technical package represents a select group of strategies based on the best available
evidence to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with …