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

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 …

This work investigates whether and how COVID-19 containment policies had an immediate
impact on crime trends in Los Angeles. The analysis is conducted using Bayesian structural …

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 …

An increasing number of minority youth experience contact with the criminal justice system.
But how does the expansion of police presence in poor urban communities affect …

The police need public support and cooperation to be effective in controlling crime and
holding offenders accountable. In many disadvantaged communities of color, poor …

The last few years have seen sustained attention to the harms of policing, and with good
reason. Almost one thousand people are shot and killed by the police each year.'Countless …

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

In 2016, the city of Bogotá doubled police patrols and intensified city services on high-crime
streets. They did so based on a criminological consensus that such place-based programs …

Research Summary In this article, we provide the most comprehensive narrative review to
date of the research evidence base for body‐worn cameras (BWCs). Seventy empirical …