Books written by Anthony A. Braga
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Place Matters: Criminology for the Twenty-First Century
This has already been a key factor in development and lack of development of work in this area. We believe the first detailed empirical examination of the distribution of crime across microgeographic places is Shaw's identification of ...
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Place Matters
Around the 1940s, pioneers including Kurt Lewin, Egon Brunswik, and Roger Barker pointed out that people act differently within different social and physical settings. They argued that we cannot gain a full understanding of human ...
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A Framework for Addressing Violence and Serious Crime: Focused Deterrence, Legitimacy, and Prevention
... recruited local business executives and social science researchers to contribute to the planning process by providing policy advice intended to enhance long-term viability of the intervention (Skubak Tillyer, Engel, & Lovins, 2012).
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Reducing Gun Violence: The Boston Gun Project's Operation Ceasefire
Both successes and failures are discussed, and recommendations are made for future programs. The project was directed by members of Harvard Univ's. John F. Kennedy School of Government. Charts, tables and maps.
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Place Matters: Criminology for the Twenty-First Century
The book brings together eighteen top scholars in criminology and place to provide comprehensive research expanding across different themes.
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Police Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives
Reviews innovations in policing over the last four decades, bringing together top policing scholars to discuss whether police should adopt these approaches.
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Experimental Criminology: Prospects for Advancing Science and Public Policy
The essays in this volume report on new and innovative contributions that experimental criminology is making to basic scientific knowledge and public policy.
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Experimental Criminology: Prospects for Advancing Science and Public Policy
The essays in this volume report on new and innovative contributions that experimental criminology is making to basic scientific knowledge and public policy.
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Policing Gun Violence: Strategic Reforms for Controlling Our Most Pressing Crime Problem
Drawing on deterrence theory,16 gun violence can be reduced when prospec- tive offenders perceive the risks of illegally carrying guns in public places to exceed any rewards of doing so when police are frisking suspicious persons for ...
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Strategies for Disrupting Illegal Firearm Markets: A Case Study of Los Angeles
Pierce, Glenn L., LeBaron Briggs, and David A. Carlson, The Identification of Patterns in Firearms Trafficking: Implications ... Evaluation of the New York City Police Department Firearm Training and Firearm- Discharge Review Process, ...
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Police Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives
... third-party policing efforts are people involved in deviant behavior. In theory, the ultimate targets of third-party policing could include those persons engaged in any type of criminal behavior including domestic violence, white-collar ...
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Police Enforcement Strategies to Prevent Crime in Hot Spot Areas: Crime Prevention Research Review #2
The second publication in the Crime Prevention Research Review series, this report summarizes the findings from all rigorous academic studies evaluating police enforcement strategies in hot spot areas.