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 …

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 …

Since 2005, bullying, school violence, and school safety literatures have expanded
dramatically in content, disciplines, and empirical studies. However, despite this massive …

Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Ninth Edition, is a highly acclaimed textbook
offering a broad perspective on criminological theory. It provides students of criminology and …

The field of environmental criminology is a staple theoretical framework in contemporary
criminological theory. This fully revised and expanded edition of the world's first …

An underlying premise of democratic politics is that protest can be an effective form of civic
engagement that shapes policy changes desired by marginalized groups. But it is not certain …

The randomized experiment has achieved the status of the gold standard for estimating
causal effects in criminology and the other social sciences. Although causal identification is …

Youth involvement in crime has declined substantially over the past few decades, yet the
reasons for this trend remain unclear. We advance the literature by examining the role of …

Objectives Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a type of computer simulation that creates a
virtual society and allows controlled experimentation. ABM has the potential to be a powerful …