An emerging line of research explores how calculating the harm associated with different
types of crime serves as a method to measure crime across times, places and people. A …

There has been extensive research on the value of closed-circuit television (CCTV) for
preventing crime, but little on its value as an investigative tool. This study sought to establish …

Dating violence is a serious manifestation of harmful behaviour during adolescence. During
the past decades, considerable research has shed light on patterns, causes, and …

Executive summary The economic and social costs of crime estimates are important in
helping to develop an understanding of the wider costs and benefits associated with …

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” …

Recent innovation in domestic violence (DV) treatment suggests that when a batterer
intervention programme (BIP) is combined with clinical elements, including motivational or …

This article offers a detailed examination of the content of predictive policing applications.
Crime prediction machines are used by governments to shape the moral behavior of police …

We used a randomized controlled trial to test the effect of mass deployment of TASERs on
policing. The findings show that the presence of a TASER is causally linked to statistically …

The extent to which street trees affect crime is moderated by many characteristics of tree
structure, streetscapes, and tree management. To effectively utilize urban greening …

This chapter explores a number of interrelated questions about 'crime levels','crime patterns',
and 'crime trends' and how they are measured. These range from what may sound like (but …