The updated edition of the essential guide to environmental psychology Thoroughly revised
and updated, the second edition, Environmental Psychology: An Introduction offers an …

This paper presents the findings from a review of the theoretical and empirical literature on
the links between crime and fear of crime, the social and built environment, and health and …

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 …

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 …

In his first year working in Los Angeles's Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street
by police fourteen times. Usually for doing little more than standing there.Juliette, a woman …

The mission of policing is “to protect and serve,” but recent events suggest that many
Americans, and especially Black Americans, do not feel protected from the police …

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 …

Background: War on Drugs policing has failed to reduce domestic street-level drug activity:
the cost of drugs remains low and drugs remain widely available. Objectives: In light of …

Research Summary We conducted face‐to‐face interviews with 50 young Black men,
residents of high‐crime neighborhoods in Brooklyn and the Bronx, individuals who had …

After reviewing the evidence regarding the general effectiveness of hot spots policing (what
we know), we focus on areas where new knowledge must be developed (what we need to …