Crime Prevention Research Review No
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Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising
www.ojp.govon a systematic review of more than 500 scientific evaluations of crime prevention practices. This Research in Brief summa-rizes the research methods and conclu-sions found in that report. In 1996, a Federal law required the U.S. Attorney General to provide Con-gress with an independent review of the Many crime prevention programs work. Others ...
Crime Prevention Research Review No. 3: Does …
cops.usdoj.govNo. 3 of . Crime Prevention Research Review. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. The opinions contained herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies .
Prevention and Reduction: A review of strategies for ...
assets.publishing.service.gov.ukResearch Report DFE-RR111. Prevention and Reduction: A review of strategies for intervening early to prevent or reduce youth crime and anti-social behaviour . Andy Ross, Kathryn Duckworth, David J. Smith, Gill Wyness and Ingrid Schoon . Centre for Analysis of Youth Transitions (CAYT)
Recent Violent Crime Trends in the United States
sgp.fas.orgincreases in violent crime (particularly homicides) in some cities, these increases are not indicative of a sweeping national crime wave. The report also provides a review of research on whether increases in violent crime in some cities can be attributed to a “Ferguson effect.” The
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE FIVE THINGS
www.ojp.govAccording to the National Academy of Sciences, “Research on the deterrent effect of capital punishment is uninformative about whether capital punishment increases, decreases, or has no effect on homicide rates.” Source: Daniel S. Nagin, “Deterrence in the Twenty-First Century,” in . Crime and Justice: A Review of Research
The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from Prison ...
eml.berkeley.edubetween crime and education even if there is no causal effect of education on crime. State poli-cies may induce bias with the opposite sign— if increases in state spending for crime prevention and prison construction trade off with spending for public education, a positive spurious corre-lation between education and crime is also possible.
More COPS, Less Crime - Princeton University
www.princeton.educrime such as Becker (1968), which predict that police presence reduces crime by deterring potential offenders, hiring police is the main policy instrument used by local governments for crime prevention. The causal effect of expanding police forces on crime rates is, therefore, a parameter of substantial interest for policymakers.