Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

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

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 …

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 …

We review economics research regarding the effect of police, punishments, and work on
crime, with a particular focus on papers from the last twenty years. Evidence in favor of …

Research on inequality in punishment has a long and storied history, yet the overwhelming
focus has been on episodic disparity in isolated stages of criminal case processing (eg …

Abstract Background Herman Goldstein developed problem‐oriented policing (POP) to
focus police on more proactively addressing chronic problems, rather than using traditional …

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 …

This article deals with the modes of (contested) control that are at play at the Mediterranean
frontier for containing, dividing and discipling unruly mobility. Building on ethnographic …

The authors review research on police effectiveness in reducing crime, disorder, and fear in
the context of a typology of innovation in police practices. That typology emphasizes two …