The world's first professional police force, The London Metropolitan Police, deterred crime and brought a significant reduction in violent crimes when it was introduced nearly 200 years ago. By using historical data, a new ...
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Aug 24, 2021
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Levels of serious violence in England and Wales fell by almost a third in 2020, reflecting COVID-19 lockdowns and other restrictions.
Social Sciences
May 12, 2021
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For the first time in 25 years, a team of researchers, including Professor Mark A. Cohen of Vanderbilt University, has provided a comprehensive overview of the number of incidents of crime in the United States and their staggering ...
Social Sciences
Feb 8, 2021
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New research finds that student exposure to violent crime in urban elementary schools is linked to higher transfer rates, with students ineligible for free- or reduced-price meals and students from safer neighborhoods more ...
Education
Nov 17, 2020
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The various restrictions put in place to combat the spread of coronavirus in recent months have disrupted life for everyone—including criminals.
Social Sciences
Jul 31, 2020
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When and where does crime arise in cities? To answer this question, criminologists have previously relied on rather static models. Crime has been linked, for example, to the structure of the resident population or to the ...
Social Sciences
Jul 16, 2020
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A pair of researchers with New York University Abu Dhabi has found a connection between the location of post offices in the formative years of the United States and modern crime rates. In their paper published in Proceedings ...
A massive experiment that deployed regular police patrols on platforms in the London Underground has shown that four 15-minute patrols a day in some of the capital's most crime-ridden stations reduced reported crime and disorder ...
Social Sciences
Jan 16, 2020
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New rape statistics have highlighted what many people already know: the UK's criminal justice system is broken. Rape allegations are at a record high, but the number of cases progressing through from charging to prosecution ...
Social Sciences
Dec 18, 2019
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Just in time for Halloween, the BetaGov team at NYU's Marron Institute of Urban Management is releasing a three-country study on the "lunar effect."
Social Sciences
Oct 30, 2019
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