Monetary Costs and Benefits of Crime Prevention Programs

By Brandon C. Welsh, David P. Farrington. Crime and justice, 2000

124 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Epidemiology, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Sociology and Political Science

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In Epidemiology

1. Mark A. Cohen
2. David P. Farrington
3. Brandon C. Welsh

In Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

1. Anthony A. Braga
2. David P. Farrington
3. Mark A. Cohen
4. Brandon C. Welsh
5. David Weisburd

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Anthony A. Braga
2. David P. Farrington
3. Mark A. Cohen
4. Andrew V. Papachristos
5. David M Hureau
6. Brandon C. Welsh
7. David Weisburd
8. Alex R. Piquero

Citations in the corpus

• The Effects of Hot Spots Policing on Crime: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2014, background): “It is unfortunately rare for crime and justice program evaluations to include analyses of monetary costs of running the program relative to the benefits accrued by preventing crimes (Welsh & Farrington, 2000).”
• Improved street lighting and crime prevention (2002, background): “Our previous work (Welsh and Farrington, 1999; 2000) has shown that situational crime prevention is an economically efficient strategy in preventing crime.”
• Measuring the Costs and Benefits of Crime and Justice (2000, background): “Welsh and Farrington (2000) summarized recent studies that measure costs and benefits and also discussed some of the methodological issues surrounding benefit-cost analysis.”
• Crime prevention effects of closed circuit television: a systematic review (2002, background): “Previous work (Welsh and Farrington, 1999, 2000) has shown that situational crime prevention generally is an economically efficient strategy in preventing crime.”