In recent years, crime scholars and practitioners have pointed to the potential benefits of
focusing police crime prevention efforts on crime places. Research suggests that there is …

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

This Campbell systematic review examines the effects of focusing police crime prevention
efforts on crime ‘hot spots’, and whether focused police actions at specific locations result in …

Sociologists have given considerable attention to identifying the neighborhood-level social-interactional
mechanisms that influence outcomes such as crime, educational attainment, …

High-profile cases of police violence—disproportionately experienced by black men—may
present a serious threat to public safety if they lower citizen crime reporting. Using an …

Most sociological theories consider murder an outcome of the differential distribution of
individual, neighborhood, or social characteristics. And while such studies explain variation in …

Boston, like many other major US cities, experienced an epidemic of gun violence during the
late 1980s and early 1990s that was followed by a sudden large downturn in gun violence …

Nearly a century of empirical research examines how neighborhood properties influence a
host of phenomena such as crime, poverty, health, civic engagement, immigration, and …

This study examines the relationship between gentrification and neighborhood crime rates
by measuring the growth and geographic spread of one of gentrification's most prominent …

Objectives. We examined whether the burden of violence in a child’s community environment
alters the child’s behavior and functioning in the classroom setting. Methods. To identify …