Objectives To determine whether crime-reduction effects of increased police patrols in hot
spots are dependent on the “hard” threat of immediate physical arrest, or whether “soft” …

Objectives To disaggregate the crime impact of visitor inflows. There is increasing evidence
that visitors can make a major contribution to levels of crime in a given neighbourhood …

Trafficking in human beings (THB) is a growing criminal activity involving the movement of
victims by force or coercion for sexual or labour exploitation. THB is often facilitated …

This chapter provides an overview of the principles of Crime Prevention Through
Environmental Design (CPTED). The paper focuses on the “dark side” of CPTED, a relatively …

Criminologists often claim that neighborhoods with a higher proportion of commercial land
uses are likely to be more vulnerable to crime because commercial facilities attract outsiders …

Purpose This study investigates criminal nomadism—an individual's propensity to engage in
continuous or intermittent interurban travel as a way to cope with the consequences of their …

Objectives One of the areas in terrorism that has not been adequately examined, is the
geographic concentration of terror attacks in a city's micro places. The literature related to …

While the public health and environmental benefits of walkable neighbourhoods have been
widely studied, the safety effect of walkability is still unclear. Using a three-year crime …

With Chinese people's increasing willingness to participate in night activities, local
governments have begun regarding the nighttime economy as an important means to …

Objectives To examine the influence of street block slope on robbery in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Methods Data visualizations were used to examine how street block slope varies across the …