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

A Hyperspectral Survey of New York City Lighting Technology

Using side-facing observations of the New York City (NYC) skyline, we identify lighting technologies via spectral signatures measured with Visible and Near Infrared (VNIR) hyperspectral imaging. The instrument is a scanning, single slit spectrograph with 872 spectral channels from 0.4-1.0 μ m. With a single scan, we are able to clearly match the detected spectral signatures of 13 templates of k...

Compstat Management in the Nypd: Reducing Crime and Improving Quality of Life in New York City

One of the most remarkable stories and most discussed topics in contemporary American law enforcement and throughout the criminal justice field is the tremendous decline in crime achieved in New York City since 1993. Indeed, the number and rate of major felony crimes in New York City have declined at unprecedented rates for the past thirteen consecutive years, and New York City continues to be ...

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

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Crime in New York City As Affected by the War

A Review of Street Lighting Evaluations: Crime Reduction Effects

Consideration of the literature concerning street lighting effects on crime yields the following conclusions: (1) Precisely targeted increases in street lighting generally have crime reduction effects. (2) More general increases in street lighting seem to have crime prevention effects, but this outcome is not universal Older and U.S. research yield fewer positive results than more recent U.K. r...