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2 - Crime, Violence, and Insecurity

from Part I - Crime, Insecurity, and Policing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 December 2024

Graeme Blair
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
Fotini Christia
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jeremy M. Weinstein
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
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Summary

This chapter describes patterns of crime and insecurity in the six study countries where the coordinated randomized trials took place and how these places compare to other countries. It then provides a theoretical framework for understanding the causes of crime, why crime rates often diverge from citizen perceptions of insecurity, and how crime and perceived insecurity can be reduced. The chapter concludes by surveying the set of policy tools used to reduce crime, and how policing fits into those tools.

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Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing
Experiments on Building Trust
, pp. 16 - 31
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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