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

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 …

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 …

Long-standing social problems such as poor achievement, personal and intergroup conflict,
bad health, and unhappiness can seem like permanent features of the social landscape. We …

Algorithmic tools for predicting violence and criminality are increasingly deployed in
policing, bail, and sentencing. Scholarly attention to date has focused on these tools' …

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 …

The concept of community policing is very popular with politicians and the general public–so
popular that few police chiefs want to be caught without some program they can call …

Democratic policing today is a widely used approach to policing not only in Western
societies but increasingly around the world. Yet it is rarely defined and it is little understood …

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 …

Objective: Crime policy scholars and practitioners have argued for years that when police
address social and physical disorder in neighborhoods they can prevent serious crime, yet …