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Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Street Lighting in New York City
Chalfin, Aaron - 2019
This paper offers experimental evidence that crime can be successfully reduced by changing the situational environment that potential victims and offenders face. We focus on a ubiquitous but surprisingly understudied feature of the urban landscape – street lighting – and report the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871155
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Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Street Lighting in New York City
Chalfin, Aaron - 2019
This paper offers experimental evidence that crime can be successfully reduced by changing the situational environment that potential victims and offenders face. We focus on a ubiquitous but surprisingly understudied feature of the urban landscape - street lighting - and report the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479748
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Reducing crime through environmental design : evidence from a randomized experiment of street lighting in New York City
Chalfin, Aaron; Hansen, Benjamin; Lerner, Jason; … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026330
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Can Gun Violence be Deterred at Low Cost? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in New York City
Aboaba, Oludamilare; Chalfin, Aaron; LaForest-Tucker, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Can gun violence be deterred at low cost? We report the results of a randomized experiment of a messaging intervention … which was designed to reduce gun violence among individuals under parole supervision with a prior violent felony conviction … community. The program did not lead to a reduction in gun violence or create community spillover effects but did reduce parole …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544733