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Situational Crime Prevention: Successful Case Studies

R. V. G. Clarke
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In this article, a serious challenge to those who believe that only broad-based, state funded mega-projects constitute genuine preventive initiatives is presented, in which the authors present a case study of preventive initiatives.
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This book is a serious challenge to those who believe that only broad-based, state funded mega-projects constitute genuine preventive initiatives.

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Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising. Research in Brief. National Institute of Justice.

Lawrence W. Sherman, +5 more
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Environment and Crime in the Inner City Does Vegetation Reduce Crime

Frances E. Kuo, +1 more
- 01 May 2001 - 
TL;DR: Although vegetation has been positively linked to fear of crime and crime in a number of settings, recent findings in urban residential areas have hinted at a possible negative relationship: Reside... as mentioned in this paper.

Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising

Lawrence W. Sherman, +5 more
TL;DR: In 1996, a Federal law required the U.S. Attorney General to provide Congress with an independent review of the Many crime prevention programs work. Others don’t.
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Criminality of place

Patricia L. Brantingham, +1 more
- 01 Sep 1995 - 
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Nodes, paths and edges: Considerations on the complexity of crime and the physical environment

Patricia L. Brantingham, +1 more
- 01 Mar 1993 - 
TL;DR: The relationship between crime and the physical environment is mediated through individual awareness and action spaces as discussed by the authors, and crime is strongly related to aggregate elements of the perceived physical environment: nodes, paths, edges and an environmental backcloth.