Andrew V. Papachristos

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of hot spots policing and crime were investigated and Meta-analyses were used to determine the size, direction, and statistical significance of the overall impact of hot-spaces policing strategies on crime.

TL;DR: The authors find that legal cynicism explains why homicide persisted in certain Chicago neighborhoods during the 1990s despite declines in poverty and declines in violence citywide.

TL;DR: This paper explored the consequences of legal cynicism, a cultural frame in which people perceive the law as illegitimate, unresponsive, and ill equipped to ensure public safety, which explains why homicide persisted in certain Chicago neighborhoods during the 1990s despite declines in poverty and declines in violence citywide.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that gang murder is best understood not by searching for individual determinants but by examining the social networks of action and reaction that create it, and they define the social structure of gang murder as defined by the manner in which social networks are constructed and by people's placement in them.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used growth curve regression models to uncover distinctive developmental trends in gun assault incidents at street segments and intersections in Boston over a 29-year period, and found that Boston gun violence is intensely concentrated at a small number of street segments, rather than spread evenly across the urban landscape between 1980 and 2008.