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Objectives We examine the long-run relationship between homicide and macroeconomic conditions in Sweden during the period 1861–2020. Drawing on the literature on Crime and the Economy (Rosenfeld 2024; Rosenfeld and Messner 2013), we assess whether...
This article expands on two themes that are central to the translation of relevant developmental and life-course criminological research for crime prevention policy and were a major part of the late David Farrington’s life-work to help build a safer...
This edited volume presents a survey of empirical work on different aspects of the economics of crime and the legal system. The book begins by laying out the foundational ideas in the field and previewing the major themes, which span crime and...
This article highlights how context matters in the implementation of a crime prevention initiative, exemplified by the implementation of the SafeGrowth method at Drottninghög, Helsingborg, Sweden. Drottninghög is the first area in Europe where...
With the rise of OnlyFans, online camming, and digital labour transformations post-COVID-19, this book captures a defining moment in sex work and the gig economy. This book offers an up-to-date reflection from academic research (usually involving...
Criminologists have long noted the exacerbated rates of firearm-related offending in the United States in comparison to other developed nations. There has been a renewed focus on gun crime in the wake of a recent dramatic reversal of the...
This study examines how newspapers frame artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool of crime prevention in contemporary media and governance contexts, analyzing a large corpus of English language news articles retrieved from Nexis Uni. Using...
This book critically examines justice across philosophical, legal, and social contexts, asking a fundamental question relating to the complexities of justice: justice for whom? This accessibly written, student-friendly book explores the intellectual...
This book offers a criminological analysis of algorithmic control in Australia’s gig economy, revealing how digital labour platforms such as Uber, Didi, Airtasker, and others use opaque algorithms to pursue profitability through digital mechanisms...
Community violence and firearm violence are persistent public health challenges in the USA. Guided by Busy Streets Theory (BST), we examine the effects that public art in the form of murals on police incidents involving youth as victims. We studied...
A substantial body of research has examined how natural disasters influence crime trends, yet evidence on how wildfires affect crime remains underexplored. This study addresses that gap by using tract-level data and random-effects negative binomial...
Safety perception plays a crucial role in promoting sustainable urban development, as it influences residents’ spatial use behaviors, social interaction patterns, and neighborhood cohesion. However, existing studies have largely focused on single...
This book examines the many faces and roles of police intelligence in practices of law enforcement and crime control, in line with new approaches in the history of bureaucracy and information management and, above all, in the history of the police...
Research on micro-level crime trajectories has largely focused on large metropolitan areas, leaving limited understanding of whether the same neighborhood-level processes operate across diverse urban contexts. Addressing this gap, this study...
This is an introduction to the special issue of Trends in Organised Crimeon ‘Corruption’. Drawing together five original contributions, the special issue highlights how corruption can become embedded and normalised across a number of geographical,...
Objectives This study evaluates the deterrent effect of enhanced street lighting on crime in the City of Newark, NJ. Between 2019 and 2021, a prioritization program was launched to replace high-pressure sodium lights (HPS) with light-emitting diodes...
This book examines the role of the prison in the commissioning and delivery of theatre practice. It draws attention to discourses of publicly acceptable arts and other mechanisms of ‘soft power’ which shape access to prison theatre. Each chapter...
In November of 2021, more than a year after the public execution of George Floyd by local police officers, Minneapolis voters rejected an amendment to its city charter (‘Question 2’) to abolish its police department. One of the most interesting...
This short report explores the impact of COVID on crime in a suburban community in the United States. We seek to understand the impact of COVID on patterns of arrests in Irondequoit, a suburban community of Rochester, New York. Data are from...
Closed-circuit television (CCTV) systems are a widely used crime prevention tool in urban areas, yet their effectiveness may vary depending on neighborhood context. This study examines the direct and moderating effects of CCTV presence and density...
Crime Prevention & Community Safetyis at the forefront of its field. It aims to facilitate the exchange of expertise and experience, to promote good...
The Journal of Quantitative Criminologyfocuses on research advances from such fields as statistics, sociology, geography, political science,...
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Covers crime and deviance at the global, national, regional and local level, worldwide Has a special focus on financial crime, corruption, terrorism...
