Gangs and Crime Deterrence

Focused Deterrence Strategies and Crime Control

Research Summary Focused deterrence strategies are increasingly being applied to prevent and control gang and group-involved violence, overt drug markets, and individual repeat offenders. Our updated examination of the effects of focused deterrence strategies on crime followed the systematic review protocols and conventions of the Campbell Collaboration. Twentyfour quasi-experimental evaluation...

Dušek CRIME , DETERRENCE , AND DEMOCRACY CERGE - EI

We provide new evidence on the effect of deterrence on crime using the experience of a transition country (the Czech Republic) as a quasi-natural experiment. The arrival of democracy in 1989 was accompanied by sharp reductions in all measures of deterrence and sharp increases in crime rates. We test whether deterrence, rather than other factors, was responsible for the post-1989 growth in crime...

Crime, Deterrence and Unemployment in Greece: A Panel Data Approach

Mobile Phones and Crime Deterrence: An Underappreciated Link

Focused deterrence, selective targeting, drug trafficking and organised crime: Concepts and practicalities

• Factors that impact the level of effectiveness of focused-deterrence strategies and selective interdiction include the political context, the level of pre-existing intelligence and enforcement capacity of the government, the government’s capacity to concentrate resources, the size and scale of criminality, the complexity of and power distribution in the criminal market, and the structure of c...