Does neighborhood watch reduce crime? A systematic review and meta-analysis

Bennett, Trevor; Holloway, Katy; Farrington, David P.

doi:10.1007/s11292-006-9018-5

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“…For example, for security guards, the following terms were used: security guards, private police, formal surveillance, and guardian. (For more details on the inclusion criteria and search strategies, see [3,55]). These searches of systematic reviews yielded 62 studies.…”

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“…Neighborhood watch Neighborhood watch is a form of residential guardianship that developed in the 1960s in the U.S. in an effort to increase citizen involvement in crime prevention [3]. Neighborhood watch has also been referred to as block watch, apartment watch, home watch, and community watch.…”

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“…Bennett et al [3] carried out a systematic review of neighborhood watch, which included 18 high-quality studies. They found that this form of guardianship was associated with a 16% reduction in crime in communities where it was implemented compared to similar communities that did not receive it.…”

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Guardianship for crime prevention: a critical review of the literature

Hollis-Peel

Reynald

Bavel

et al. 2011

Crime Law Soc Change

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Cohen and Felson's (Cohen and Felson American Sociological Review 44 (4):588-608, 1979) routine activity theory posits that for a crime to occur three necessary elements must converge in time and space: motivated offenders, suitable targets, and the absence of capable guardianship. Capable guardians can serve as a key actor in the crime event model; one who can disrupt, either directly or indirectly, the interaction between a motivated offender and a suitable target. This article critically reviews the literature on guardianship for crime prevention. Our specific focus is two-fold: (1) to review the way guardianship has been operationalized and measured, and (2) to review experimental and quasi-experimental evaluations and field tests of guardianship. Research on routine activities has had an uneven focus resulting in the neglect of the guardianship component (Reynald Crime

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Guardianship for crime prevention: a critical review of the literature

Hollis-Peel

Reynald

Bavel

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“…También hay autores que incluyen como recursos compartidos aspectos más inmateriales, como el de la seguridad, abordando -por ejemplo-cómo la comunidad se organiza para prevenir la criminalidad en un área determinada de la ciudad (Bennett, Holloway & Farrington, 2006;Wagenaar & Soeparman, 2004). En una escala mayor, ha habido tentativas de conceptualizar las infraestructuras básicas que posibilitan la vida en la ciudad como comunes urbanos (Bravo & De Moor, 2008;.…”

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Comunes urbanos: de la gestión colectiva al derecho a la ciudad

Castro-Coma

Martí-Costa

2016

EURE (Santiago)

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issn impreso 0250-7161 | issn digital vol 42 | n o 125 | enero 2016 | pp. 131-153 | artículos | ©EURE Comunes urbanos: de la gestión colectiva al derecho a la ciudad Mauro Castro-Coma. Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya (upc), Barcelona, España. Marc Martí-Costa. Flacso-Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.resumen | Existe un creciente interés y una emergente literatura académica en los estudios urbanos sobre los comunes y su aplicación. Por un lado, destacan aquellas aportaciones que aplican al ámbito urbano, los estudios de Elinor Ostrom sobre las formas de autogestión de los recursos naturales de uso común. Por el otro, la literatura crítica sobre el neoliberalismo, las nuevas formas de acumulación por desposesión y las resistencias a ellas en forma de movimientos sociales también han abordado los comunes en la ciudad desde diferentes perspectivas de origen marxista. En este trabajo se ordenan y se analizan las contribuciones de ambas aproximaciones, sus puntos críticos, así como sus posibles complementariedades, para avanzar hacia una mejor conceptualización y una futura agenda de investigación sobre los comunes urbanos.

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“…Zheng et al, 2014), road traffic anomalies (B. Pan et al, 2013) monitoring water availability (E. Jurrens et al, 2009), neighborhood watch schemes (T. Bennett et al, 2006), detecting unfolding emergencies (M. Avvenuti et al, 2016) and generally augmenting the situational awareness of first responders through social media (S. K. Boddhu et al, 2013). Yet, rather surprisingly the concept is very new in relation to detecting and reporting threats in cyber space.…”

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Predicting the performance of users as human sensors of security threats in social media

Heartfield¹,

Loukas²

2016

IJCSA

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While the human as a sensor concept has been utilised extensively for the detection of threats to safety and security in physical space, especially in emergency response and crime reporting, the concept is largely unexplored in the area of cyber security. Here, we evaluate the potential of utilising users as human sensors for the detection of cyber threats, specifically on social media. For this, we have conducted an online test and accompanying questionnairebased survey, which was taken by 4,457 users. The test included eight realistic social media scenarios (four attack and four non-attack) in the form of screenshots, which the participants were asked to categorise as "likely attack" or "likely not attack". We present the overall performance of human sensors in our experiment for each exhibit, and also apply logistic regression and Random Forest classifiers to evaluate the feasibility of predicting that performance based on different characteristics of the participants. Such prediction would be useful where accuracy of human sensors in detecting and reporting social media security threats is important. We identify features that are good predictors of a human sensor's performance and evaluate them in both a theoretical ideal case and two more realistic cases, the latter corresponding to limited access to a user's characteristics Keyword: -Social media, computer security, semantic attacks, phishing, social engineering, human as a sensor.

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Does neighborhood watch reduce crime? A systematic review and meta-analysis

Cited by 97 publications

References 4 publications

Guardianship for crime prevention: a critical review of the literature

Guardianship for crime prevention: a critical review of the literature

Comunes urbanos: de la gestión colectiva al derecho a la ciudad

Predicting the performance of users as human sensors of security threats in social media

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