Effects of Hot Spots Policing on Crime

By Anthony A. Braga. 2007

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This Campbell systematic review synthesizes the existing published and non‐published empirical evidence on the effects of focused police crime prevention interventions at high‐activity crime places and will provide a systematic assessment of the preventive value of focused police crime prevention efforts at crime hot spots. The review also examined whether focused police actions at specific locations result in crime displacement. Studies that used randomized controlled experimental or quasi‐experimental designs were selected. Nine eligible studies were included in this review. The results of this systematic review support the assertion that focusing police efforts at high activity crime places can be effective in preventing crime. Whatever the impact, we need to know more about the effects of hot spots policing approaches on the communities that the police serve.

Subfields: Health, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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In Health

1. David Weisburd
2. Daniel J. Woods
3. Bruce G. Taylor
4. Christopher S. Koper
5. Anthony A. Braga

In Political Science and International Relations

1. David Weisburd
2. Christopher S. Koper
3. Daniel J. Woods
4. Bruce G. Taylor
5. Anthony A. Braga

In Sociology and Political Science

1. David Weisburd
2. Anthony A. Braga
3. Christopher S. Koper
4. Daniel J. Woods
5. Bruce G. Taylor
6. Charles E. Loeffler
7. Seth R. Flaxman

Citations in the corpus

• A randomized controlled trial of different policing strategies at hot spots of violent crime (2011, background): “The estimated effects of POP on violence were generally within the range of those found in Braga et al.’s (1999) study of POP at violent places in Jersey City.”
• The Effects of Focused Deterrence Strategies on Crime (2012, methodology): “Fourth, we searched bibliographies of narrative reviews of police crime prevention efforts (Braga 2008a; Sherman 2002; Weisburd and Eck 2004) and past completed Campbell systematic reviews of police crime prevention efforts (Braga 2007; Mazerolle, Soole, and Rombouts 2007; Weisburd et al. 2008).”