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Jan 3, 2023 · While violent crime today registers at much lower levels than in 1991, when violent crime reached its highest point in recent history, 3 public anxiety about crime is high. Yet, more police and a redoubling of get-tough measures, however alluring, have not proven to be as effective as they appear.
- José Luis Morín
- New Labor Forum. 2023 Jan; 32(1): 60-68.
- 10.1177/10957960221143526
- 2023/01
Jul 22, 2023 · As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the country, crime rates surged to highs not seen in decades. But now crime trends appear to be shifting.
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Apr 24, 2024 · A growing share of Americans say reducing crime should be a top priority for the president and Congress to address this year. Around six-in-ten U.S. adults (58%) hold that view today, up from 47% at the beginning of Joe Biden’s presidency in 2021. How we did this.
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“For police chiefs who want to do something, increases in violent crime are often very localized and occur among specific people and on specific streets—and the evidence from the report is that when you focus on those, you can produce reductions in crime,” Weisburd says. “Hot-spotting,” for example—a practice in which police are disproportionately ...
The report also identified police strategies that do not seem to work. “Broken windows” policing, in which officers crack down on even small instances of disorder before they overwhelm a neighborhood, does not typically lead to less crime, the panel says. But it adds that if such efforts are much more nuanced—focused on a small number of high-crime...
Most studies on police policies have focused on short-term evaluations, so the committee could not point to what will work over longer periods,Weisburdexplains. It is also hard to know how well interventions applied across an entire jurisdiction will work in particular neighborhoods or if strategies that work well in one area willdefinitelywork wel...
- Dina Fine Maron
Apr 2, 2024 · There are proven ways to significantly reduce violent crime within the next five years. It requires becoming not “tough on crime,” but “smart on crime” before it happens.
Jun 19, 2012 · Murders, rapes, assaults, and robberies impose concrete economic costs on the victims who survive as well as the families of those who lose their lives, in the loss of earnings and their physical...
Jun 24, 2021 · NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Ronald Wright, a criminal justice expert and law professor at Wake Forest University, about why so many cities across the U.S. are experiencing a surge in violent...
