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POLICING CRIME AND DISORDER HOT SPOTS: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL*
- A. Braga, Brenda J. Bond
- Law, Psychology
- 1 August 2008
Dealing with physical and social disorder to prevent serious crime has become a central strategy for policing. This study evaluates the effects of policing disorder, within a problem-oriented…
Problem-Oriented Policing, Deterrence, and Youth Violence: An Evaluation of Boston's Operation Ceasefire
- A. Braga, D. Kennedy, E. Waring, A. Piehl
- Psychology, Law
- 1 August 2001
Operation Ceasefire is a problem-oriented policing intervention aimed at reducing youth homicide and youth firearms violence in Boston. It represented an innovative partnership between researchers…
Problem-oriented policing in violent crime places: A randomized controlled experiment
- A. Braga, D. Weisburd, E. Waring, L. Mazerolle, William Spelman, Frank Gajewski
- Law
- 1 August 1999
Over the past decade, problem-oriented policing has become a central strategy for policing. In a number of studies, problem-oriented policing has been found to be effective in reducing crime and…
The Effects of Hot Spots Policing on Crime
- A. Braga
- Law, Psychology
- 1 November 2001
In recent years, researchers have argued that police actions should be focused on high-risk crime places rather than spread thinly across the urban landscape. This review examines the available…
The Effects of Hot Spots Policing on Crime: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
- A. Braga, A. Papachristos, David M. Hureau
- Law
- 28 May 2014
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 significant…
Stress and Hardship after Prison1
- B. Western, A. Braga, Jaclyn Davis, Catherine Sirois
- PsychologyAmerican Journal of Sociology
- 1 March 2015
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The Concentration and Stability of Gun Violence at Micro Places in Boston, 1980–2008
- A. Braga, A. Papachristos, David M. Hureau
- Sociology
- 1 March 2010
Boston, like many other major U.S. 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 in the mid 1990s.…
Hot spots policing and crime prevention: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials
- A. Braga
- Law, Psychology
- 15 September 2005
Crime scholars and practitioners have argued that police actions should be focused on high-risk crime places rather than spread thinly across the urban landscape. This review examines five randomized…
The Effects of Focused Deterrence Strategies on Crime
- A. Braga, D. Weisburd
- Law
- 1 August 2012
Objective. Focused deterrence strategies are increasingly being applied to prevent and control gang and group-involved violence, overt drug markets, and individual repeat offenders. Given the growing…
Reducing Gun Violence: The Boston Gun Project's Operation Ceasefire
- A. Braga, A. Piehl, D. Kennedy
- Political Science
- 1 May 2004
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