Neighborhood interventions to reduce violence

MC Kondo, E Andreyeva, EC South… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Violence is a widespread problem that affects the physical, mental, and social health of
individuals and communities. Violence comes with an immense economic cost to its victims …

Effect of abandoned housing interventions on gun violence, perceptions of safety, and substance use in Black neighborhoods: a citywide cluster randomized trial

EC South, JM Macdonald, VW Tam… - JAMA internal …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Structural racism has resulted in long-standing disinvestment and dilapidated
environmental conditions in Black neighborhoods. Abandoned houses signal neglect and …

The enduring impact of historical and structural racism on urban violence in Philadelphia

SF Jacoby, B Dong, JH Beard, DJ Wiebe… - Social Science & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Public health approaches to crime and injury prevention are increasingly focused on the
physical places and environments where violence is concentrated. In this study, our aim is to …

City government as super-controller: A systematic review of non-police mechanisms that city governments can apply to reduce crime at hot spots

CG Shader, C Gill, X Zheng, B Carleton - Aggression and Violent Behavior, 2024 - Elsevier
Place-based policing is effective, but the police do not have all the tools needed to solve
complex crime problems and certain policing strategies may increase the risk of disparate …

The impact of trauma systems on patient outcomes

J Choi, G Carlos, AK Nassar… - Current problems in …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Trauma is a pressing public health epidemic. In 2016 alone, trauma accounted for 29.2
million emergency department visits and 39.5 million physician office visits in the United …

Reducing crime through environmental design: Evidence from a randomized experiment of street lighting in New York City

A Chalfin, B Hansen, J Lerner, L Parker - Journal of Quantitative …, 2022 - Springer
Objectives This paper offers novel experimental evidence that violent crimes can be
successfully reduced by changing the situational environment that potential victims and …

Urban blight remediation as a cost-beneficial solution to firearm violence

CC Branas, MC Kondo, SM Murphy… - … journal of public …, 2016 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To determine if blight remediation of abandoned buildings and vacant lots can
be a cost-beneficial solution to firearm violence in US cities. Methods. We performed quasi …

Effects of greening and community reuse of vacant lots on crime

M Kondo, B Hohl, SH Han, C Branas - Urban Studies, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
The Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation initiated a 'Lots of
Green'programme to reuse vacant land in 2010. We performed a difference-in-differences …

Association between structural housing repairs for low-income homeowners and neighborhood crime

EC South, J MacDonald, V Reina - JAMA network open, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The root causes of violent crime in Black urban neighborhoods are structural,
including residential racial segregation and concentrated poverty. Previous work suggests …

Predictable policing: Measuring the crime control benefits of hotspots policing at bus stops

B Ariel, H Partridge - Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2017 - Springer
Objectives A fairly robust body of evidence suggests that hotspots policing is an effective
crime prevention strategy. In this paper, we present contradictory evidence of a backfiring …