The effects of hot spots policing on crime: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis

AA Braga, AV Papachristos, DM Hureau - Justice quarterly, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, crime scholars and practitioners have pointed to the potential benefits of
focusing police crime prevention efforts on crime places. Research suggests that there is …

Hot spots policing of small geographic areas effects on crime

AA Braga, B Turchan, AV Papachristos… - Campbell systematic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Situational crime prevention

RV Clarke - Crime and justice, 1995 - journals.uchicago.edu
Situational prevention seeks to reduce opportunities for specific categories of crime by
increasing the associated risks and difficulties and reducing the rewards. It is composed of …

Hot spots of predatory crime: Routine activities and the criminology of place

LW Sherman, PR Gartin, ME Buerger - Criminology, 1989 - Wiley Online Library
A leading sociological theory of crime is the “routine activities” approach (Cohen and Felson,
1979). The premise of this ecological theory is that criminal events result from likely …

General deterrent effects of police patrol in crime “hot spots”: A randomized, controlled trial

LW Sherman, D Weisburd - Justice quarterly, 1995 - Taylor & Francis
Many criminologists doubt that the dosage of uniformed police patrol causes any
measurable difference in crime. This article reports a one-year randomized trial in …

Analyzing organized crimes

DB Cornish, RV Clarke - Rational choice and criminal behavior …, 2002 - books.google.com
The rational choice approach to offending assumes that when criminals offend they do so
because crime provides the most effective means of achieving desired benefits (Clarke and …

Enduring individual differences and rational choice theories of crime

DS Nagin, R Paternoster - Law & Society Review, 1993 - cambridge.org
In explaining crime, some criminological theories emphasize time-stable individual
differences in propensity to offend while others emphasize more proximate and situational …

Do police reduce crime? Estimates using the allocation of police forces after a terrorist attack

R Di Tella, E Schargrodsky - American Economic Review, 2004 - aeaweb.org
An important challenge in the crime literature is to isolate causal effects of police on crime.
Following a terrorist attack on the main Jewish center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July …

Police crackdowns: Initial and residual deterrence

LW Sherman - Crime and justice, 1990 - journals.uchicago.edu
Police crackdowns are sudden increases in officer presence, sanctions, and threats of
apprehension either for specific offenses or for all offenses in specific places. Of eighteen …

The economics of crime

RB Freeman - Handbook of labor economics, 1999 - Elsevier
Crime is a major activity in the US, with implications for poverty and the allocation of public
and private resources. The economics of crime focuses on the effect of incentives on …