Testing hot-spots police patrols against no-treatment controls: Temporal and spatial deterrence effects in the London Underground experiment

Our understanding of causality and effect size in randomized field experiments is challenged by variations in levels of baseline treatment dosage in control groups across experiments testing similar treatments. The clearest design is to compare treated cases with no-treatment controls in a sample th...

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Authors: Ariel, Barak (Author) ; Newton, Mark (Author) ; Sherman, Lawrence W. 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: Criminology
Year: 2020, Volume: 58, Issue: 1, Pages: 101-128
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Baseline dosage
Hot Spots
No-treatment controls
Randomized experiments
Regional deterrence
Residual deterrence