Anthony Braga
0309084121
Anthony A. Braga
0521544831
Anthony A. Braga
0756723671
This edited book significantly contributes to the knowledge on how to address gang problems from a broad community perspective, which takes into account criminal justice agencies, social service providers, and community leaders, along with police, who have implemented collaborative anti-gang policie...
Paperback
202
Lexington Books
073919061X
9780739190616
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Could a data-driven, problem-solving approach yield new interventions to disrupt local, illegal gun markets serving criminals, gang members, and juveniles in Los Angeles? Law enforcement can analyze patterns in crime-gun data to trace illicit firearm acquisition, use community-based interventions to...
Greg Ridgeway, Glenn L. Pierce, Anthony A. Braga, George Tita, Garen Wintemute
Paperback
90
RAND Corporation
0833044788
9780833044785
7
The shooting at Columbine High School riveted national attention on violence in the nation’s schools. This dramatic example signaled an implicit and growing fear that these events would continue to occurâ€"and even escalate in scale and severity. How do we make sense of the tragedy of a school sh...
Committee on Law and Justice, Youth and Families Board on Children, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council
Hardcover
325
National Academies Press
0309084121
9780309084123
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Experimental criminology is a part of a larger and increasingly expanding scientific research and evidence-based movement in social policy. The essays in this volume report on new and innovative contributions that experimental criminology is making to basic scientific knowledge and public policy. Co...
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321
Cambridge University Press
1107614139
9781107614130
5
Over the last three decades American policing has gone through a period of significant change and innovation. In what is a relatively short historical time frame the police began to reconsider their fundamental mission, the nature of the core strategies of policing, and the character of their relati...
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388
Cambridge University Press
0521544831
9780521544832
4
Over the last two decades, there has been increased interest in the distribution of crime and other antisocial behavior at lower levels of geography. The focus on micro geography and its contribution to the understanding and prevention of crime has been called the 'criminology of place'. It pushes s...
David Weisburd, John E. Eck, Anthony A. Braga, Cody W. Telep, Breanne Cave, Kate Bowers, Gerben Bruinsma, Charlotte Gill, Elizabeth R. Groff, Julie Hibdon, Joshua C. Hinkle, Shane D. Johnson, Brian Lawton, Cynthia Lum, Jerry H. Ratcliffe, George Rengert, Travis Taniguchi, Sue-Ming Yang
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200
Cambridge University Press
1107609496
9781107609495
3
Both those who study crime and those who fight it agree that crime is not spread evenly across city landscapes. Rather, clusters of crime--a few "hot spots"--host a vastly disproportionate amount of criminal activity. Even within the most crime-ridden neighborhoods, crime concentrates at a few loc...
Anthony A. Braga, David L. Weisburd
Hardcover
312
Oxford University Press
0195341961
9780195341966
2
In recent years a new approach to preventing crime as opposed to reacting after offenses have occurred has gained support among police agencies worldwide. This new crime prevention strategy targets the underlying local problems that generate recurring offenses. According to Dr. Anthony Braga s compr...
Anthony A. Braga
Paperback
258
Willow Tree Pr
188179878X
9781881798781
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