Situational crime prevention
NIJ Journal Issue No. 231
Preliminary Results of a Study on Robberies in Slovenia--Police Investigation and Crime Prevention Aspects (From Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Dilemmas of Contemporary Criminal Justice, P 407-415, 2004, Gorazd Mesko, et al., eds. -- See NCJ-207973)
What Works in Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation: Lessons From Systematic Reviews
The Situated Contexts of American Terrorism: A Conjunctive Analysis of Case Configurations
Preventing Violence and Sexual Assault in Jail: A Situational Crime Prevention Approach
Evaluation of a Situational Crime Prevention Approach in Three Jails: The Jail Sexual Assault Prevention Project
Advancing Understanding, and Informing Prevention of Public Mass Shootings: Findings from NIJ Funded Studies, Part 2
In recent years, NIJ invested in several research projects to advance understanding and inform prevention of public mass shootings.
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Corrections Assistance
Evaluation of the Chicago Housing Authority's Anti-Drug Initiative: A Model of Comprehensive Crime Prevention in Public Housing
Assessing the Attractiveness and Vulnerability of Eco-Terrorism Targets: A Situational Crime Prevention Approach
Use of Civil Remedies for Neighborhood Crime and Drug Abatement by Community Organizations
Importance of Both Opportunity and Social Disorganization Theory in a Future Research Agenda to Advance Criminological Theory and Crime Prevention at Places
Crime Prevention Policy and Government Research: A Comparison of the United States and United Kingdom
Crime Prevention Through Neighborhood Revitalization: Does Practice Reflect Theory?
Reducing Disorder, Fear, and Crime in Public Housing: An Evaluation of a Drug Crime Elimination Program in Spokane, Washington
Offender Decision-Making: Decision Trees and Displacement
Systematic Analysis of Product Counterfeiting Schemes, Offenders, and Victims in the United States
Mitigating the Harm of Public Mass Shootings through Situational Crime Prevention
Less Prison, More Police, Less Crime: How Criminology Can Save the States from Bankruptcy
Professor Lawrence Sherman explains how policing can prevent far more crimes than prison per dollar spent. His analysis of the cost-effectiveness of prison compared to policing suggests that states can cut their total budgets for justice and reduce crime by reallocating their spending on crime: less prison, more police.
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Economical Crime Control: Perspectives from Both Sides of the Ledger
The surge in incarceration since 1980 has been fueled in part by the mistaken belief that the population can be divided neatly into "good guys" and "bad guys." In fact, crime rates are not determined by the number of at-large criminals, any more than farm production is determined by the number of farmers. Crime is a choice, a choice that is influenced by available opportunities as much as by character. This perspective, drawn from economic theory, supports a multi-faceted approach to crime control. Dr.
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Situational Approaches to Making Communities and Correction Institutions Safer
NIJ Conference panelists will present the results of three studies that applied situational crime prevention (SCP) principles: (1) an evaluation of the Safe City initiative in Chula Vista, Calif., designed to combine the expertise and resources of local law enforcement, retailers and the community to increase the safety of designated retail areas; (2) a randomized controlled trial (in partnership with the Washington Metro Transit Police) that assessed the effectiveness of SCP to reduce car crime in Metro's parking facilities; and (3) an evaluation of the impact of SCP