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Abstract Background In recent years, crime scholars and practitioners have pointed to the potential benefits of focusing crime prevention efforts on crime places. A number of studies suggest that there is significant clu...

Abstract Background Herman Goldstein developed problem‐oriented policing (POP) to focus police on more proactively addressing chronic problems, rather than using traditional reactive efforts. POP has been utilized to t...

Airports are strategically and economically important installations of any country. Airports are the gateway of any country and any incidents at these gateways may harm the very aspects of a country in the comity of nati...

ABSTRACT We evaluated 28 horses from a squad applied in public safety in Paraná (Brazil), in order to check the incidence of gastric ulcers and its correlation with mounted policing activity, considering the initial and...

Abstract This article focuses on how urban security has been governed in Mumbai in the aftermath of the 2008 terrorist attacks (26/11). The event was widely cited as a major turning point in the securitisation and milita...

Neighbourhood theft persists in peri-urban and urban Tanzania despite widespread community-led guarding. While commercial guard-tour systems exist, they do not fit neighbourhood committee realities of member contribution...

Abstract Background Police can play a role in tackling violent extremism through disrupting terrorist plots and by working with communities to identify individuals at risk of radicalisation. Police programmes to tackle v...

Abstract Background Police‐initiated pedestrian stops have been one of the most widely used crime prevention tactics in modern policing. Proponents have long considered police stops to be an indispensable component of ...

Abstract Background Mistrust of law enforcement across the United States has implications for public health and safety. While direct police encounters shape perceptions of law enforcement, the influence of broader experi...

The fight against street‐level drug crime cannot be won by spending more resources on traditional, reactive style police work. Rather, partnerships between the police and other “third parties” should be applied, su...

Abstract Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa increasingly articulate a desire to “go back home,” yet few can enact return. This paper investigates why return persists as aspiration while remaining practically unreach...