Aaron Chalfin talks about the effects of street lighting on crime.
"Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Street Lighting in New York City" by Aaron Chalfin, Benjamin Hansen, Jason Lerner, and Lucie Parker.
OTHER RESEARCH WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE:"Keep the kids inside? Juvenile curfews and urban gun violence" by Jillian B. Carr and Jennifer L. Doleac.
"Effects of improved street lighting on crime" by Brandon C. Welsh and David P. Farrington.
"Under the cover of darkness: How ambient light influences criminal activity" by Jennifer L. Doleac and Nicholas J. Sanders.
"Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED): A review and modern bibliography" by Paul Michael Cozens, Greg Saville, and David Hillier.
"Situational crime prevention: Theoretical background and current practice" by Ronald V. Clarke.
"Effect of remediating blighted vacant land on shootings: A citywide cluster randomized trial" by Ruth Moyer, John M. MacDonald, Greg Ridgeway, and Charles C. Branas.
"Citywide cluster randomized trial to restore blighted vacant land and its effects on violence, crime, and fear" by Charles C. Branas, Eugenia South, Michelle C. Kondo, Bernadette C. Hohl, Philippe Bourgois, Douglas J. Wiebe, and John M. MacDonald.
"Policing crime and disorder hot spots: A randomized controlled trial" by Anthony A. Braga and Brenda J. Bond.
Episode 96: Andreas Kotsadam on jobs and intimate partner violence
Episode 95: Marcella Alsan on fear and the social safety net
Episode 94: Jesse Bruhn on the effects of gangs in Chicago
Episode 93: Justin Holz on peer effects in police use of force
Episode 92: Laura Khoury on the mental health effects of prison in Norway
Bonus episode: Joanna Schwartz on accountability for police misconduct
Episode 91: Allison Harris on registering returning citizens to vote
Episode 90: Matthew Ross on police field training
Episode 89: Graeme Blair on community policing in the Global South
Episode 88: Sara Heller and Max Kapustin on reducing gun violence
Episode 87: Emily Nix on violence against women at work
Episode 7: Jeff Weaver on the effects of parental and sibling incarceration (REBROADCAST)
Episode 3: Analisa Packham on syringe exchange programs (REBROADCAST)
Episode 86: Elizabeth Luh on financial penalties
Episode 85: Sofia Amaral on reducing street harassment in India
Episode 84: Alex Albright on bail reform
Episode 83: Kevin Wilson on DC’s 911 nurse triage line
Episode 82: Kirabo Jackson on the multiple dimensions of school quality
Episode 81: Anita Mukherjee on how heat affects violence in prisons
Episode 80: Thomas Dee on sending health workers to 911 calls
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