Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Street Lighting in New York City

Objectives This paper offers novel experimental evidence that violent crimes can be successfully reduced by changing the situational environment that potential victims and offenders face. We focus on a ubiquitous but understudied feature of the urban landscape—street lighting—and report the first ex...

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Main Author: Chalfin, Aaron (Author)
Contributors: Hansen, Benjamin ; Lerner, Jason ; Parker, Lucie
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2022, Volume: 38, Issue: 1, Pages: 127-157
Online Access: Presumably Free Access
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Keywords:
Crime
LASSO
Lights
Randomized control trial
Street lights