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Crime
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The Right Coast
Crime: The curious case of the fall in crime | The Economist
Mr DiIulio later recanted and it is clear that the pessimists were wrong. Even as he wrote, America s crime wave was breaking. Its cities have become vastly safer, and…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Crime makes halting comeback as a political issue”
Main July 6, 2013"Crime makes halting comeback as a political issue" The title of this post is the headline of this notable new AP article. Here are excerpts: The ad…
Sentencing Law and Policy
So far in 2013, more investment in cops means less homicides in Chicago
Main June 11, 2013So far in 2013, more investment in cops means less homicides in Chicago As reported in this interesting front-page New York Times article, headlined "Chicago Tactics Put…
Cruise Law News
It’s Not Better in the Bahamas: Crime Up, Cruise Passenger Spending Down
By Jim Walker
The headline today in the Nassau Guardian newspaper blasted "Elderly Woman Shot at Home" during a robbery. Another front page story involved an unrelated but even more deadly title "Men…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Can a Hard-Core Criminal Become a Better Person?”
Main May 2, 2013"Can a Hard-Core Criminal Become a Better Person?" The title of this post is the headline of this notable new piece up at Slate coming from Quora…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Horrific crime with uncertain responsibility and uncertain punishment on Patriots’ Day in Boston
Main April 15, 2013Horrific crime with uncertain responsibility and uncertain punishment on Patriots' Day in BostonI am listening now to the press conference concerning the latest news concerning the horrific…
Sentencing Law and Policy
How should we understand and react to a small uptick in San Diego’s crime rate?
Main April 11, 2013How should we understand and react to a small uptick in San Diego's crime rate?The question in the title of this post is my reaction to this…
Cruise Law News
Murder in Antigua: Store Employee Shot in Cruise Tourism Zone Heritage Quay
By Jim Walker
Yesterday evening I received a tweet from a Twitter friend in Antigua: "several cruise passengers witnessed a day light killing in the tourism area of #antigua today." Later I was…
PropertyProf Blog
Anderson et al on the Link Between Zoning and Crime
By propertyprof
James M. Anderson (RAND Corp), John MacDonald (Penn-Criminology), Ricky Bluthenthal (Southern Cal-Medicine), and J. Scott Ashwood (RAND Corp) have posted Reducing Crime by Shaping the Built Environment with Zoning: An Empirical…
Land Use Prof Blog
Anderson, MacDonald, Bluthenthal, & Ashwood on an Empirical Study of Reducing Crime with Zoning
James M. Anderson (RAND Corp.), John MacDonald (Penn--Criminology), Ricky Bluthenthal (Southern Cal--Medicine), and J. Scott Ashwood (RAND Corp.) have posted Reducing Crime by Shaping the Built Environment with Zoning: An Empirical…