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 …

Governments around the world restricted movement of people, using social distancing and
lockdowns, to help stem the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. We examine crime …

This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments
around the world have started to use data-driven applications to produce crime forecasts …

Objectives This paper describes the need for, and the development of, a coding system to
distil the quality and coverage of systematic reviews of the evidence relating to crime …

Objectives A fairly robust body of evidence suggests that hotspots policing is an effective
crime prevention strategy. In this paper, we present contradictory evidence of a backfiring …

Background Crackdowns on urban sites with concentrated criminal activity are sometimes
followed by geographical relocation of crime. Is this also the case in cyberspace, where …

Abstract Research Question How adequate is research in the USA for discovering best
policies and practices, and best implementation strategies, for reducing loss of life and injury …

Crime is highly concentrated at places that lack capable place managers (ie, landlords and
their delegates). In response, numerous cities have instituted problem property interventions …

Although multiple interventions to remediate physical blight have been found to reduce
urban firearm violence, there is limited evidence for demolishing vacant buildings as a …