The academic literature on urban policy and planning which explicitly links to neo-liberalism
is huge. The paper systematises much of this literature from the period 1990 to 2010, with an …

The social capital present within local communities is increasingly viewed as an important
source of co-productive capacity for delivering better public services. However, to date …

The efficiency of any police action depends on the relative magnitude of its crime-reducing
benefits and legitimacy costs. Policing strategies that are socially efficient at the city level …

Traditionally, security has been the realm of the state and its uniformed police. However, in
the last two decades, many actors and agencies, including schools, clubs, housing …

Objectives To undertake the first exploration of the nature of the relationship between
internal crime (those that happen within facilities) and external crime (those occurring …

Private actions to avoid and prevent criminal victimisation and assist public law enforcement
are vital inputs into the crime‐control process. One form of private action, the business …

Background: A small but growing body of research evidence suggests that place-based
police interventions generate significant crime control gains. While place-based policing …

For hundreds of years, political leaders and thinkers have deemed public safety the first duty
of government. But they have defined public safety rather narrowly, primarily in terms of the" …

We document intracity spatial persistence and its causes. Streetcars dominated urban transit
in Los Angeles County from the 1890s to the early 1910s, and were off the road entirely by …

Jurisdictions that sanction medical or, more recently, recreational marijuana use often allow
retail sales at dispensaries. Dispensaries are controversial as many believe they contribute …