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PhD Sociology University of Chicago
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Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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The Crime Drop and the Security Hypothesis (2011) (264)
WHAT WORKS IN EVALUATION RESEARCH (1994) (232)
Situational Crime Prevention (2022) (227)
Why the Crime Drop? (2014) (190)
Policing Problem Places: Crime Hot Spots and Effective Prevention (2012) (179)
Understanding Car Parks, Crime and CCTV: Evaluation Lessons from Safer Cities (1993) (174)
An introduction to scientific realist evaluation (1997) (167)
Exploring the international decline in crime rates (2010) (155)
Community policing, problem-oriented policing and intelligence-led policing (2003) (122)
Realistic Evaluation Bloodlines (2001) (117)
Surveillance of Public Space: Cctv, Street Lighting and Crime Prevention (1999) (117)
Introducing EMMIE: an evidence rating scale to encourage mixed-method crime prevention synthesis reviews (2015) (116)
Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety (2017) (110)
Not Rocket Science: Problem-solving and Crime Reduction (2000) (106)
Situational Prevention of Organised Crimes (2010) (102)
Crime and coronavirus: social distancing, lockdown, and the mobility elasticity of crime (2020) (100)
Shootings, gangs and violent incidents in Manchester: Developing a crime reduction strategy (2002) (94)
Realistic Evaluation: An Overview (2000) (91)
The effectiveness of vehicle security devices and their role in the crime drop (2011) (90)
The effectiveness of burglary security devices (2017) (89)
Criminology, Situational Crime Prevention and the Resourceful Offender (2000) (87)
Explaining and sustaining the crime drop: Clarifying the role of opportunity-related theories (2010) (81)
Burglary Reduction: Findings from Safer Cities Schemes (1984) (76)
Crime reduction and problem-oriented policing (2003) (69)
Crime Science: new approaches to preventing and detecting crime (2005) (67)
Caring Communities, Paradigm Polemics, Design Debates (1998) (62)
Policing and Neighbourhood Watch: Strategic Issues (1985) (62)
Burglary prevention: early lessons from the crime reduction programme (1999) (61)
Offenses around Stadiums (2014) (60)
Understanding and Tackling Gang Violence (2008) (60)
Modern Approaches to Policing: community, problem-oriented and intelligence-led (2008) (58)
Investing to Deliver: Reviewing the Implementation of the UK Crime Reduction Programme Programme (2004) (56)
Implementing Crime Prevention (1995) (53)
Document Title: Working Out What to Do: Evidence-Based Crime Reduction (2002) (52)
Evidence-based Policing and Crime Reduction (2009) (51)
Income Disparities of Burglary Risk Security Availability during the Crime Drop (2011) (50)
The Prevention of Crime Against Small Businesses (1993) (45)
Applying theory-driven evaluation to the British Crime Reduction Programme (2004) (45)
Debuts and legacies: the crime drop and the role of adolescence-limited and persistent offending (2015) (45)
Theft in price-volatile markets : On the relationship between copper price and copper theft (2013) (44)
Thinking about Crime Prevention Performance Indicators (1995) (42)
Analysis for Crime Prevention (2002) (41)
Problem-oriented Policing: Brit Pop (1996) (40)
Understanding the attrition process in volume crime investigation (2005) (39)
Crime Prevention and the Safer Cities Story (1993) (38)
Safer Cities and Community Safety Strategies (1992) (37)
Organized crime and local businesses (2008) (35)
Target Suitability and the Crime Drop (2015) (35)
Whither problem‐oriented policing (2010) (35)
Gating Alleys to Reduce Crime: A Meta-Analysis and Realist Synthesis (2018) (35)
Tackling anti-social behaviour: Lessons from New Labour for the Coalition Government (2011) (33)
Rationalisation of current research on guns , gangs and other weapons : Phase 1 (2005) (33)
Joining up Research, Policy and Practice about Crime (2000) (32)
Evaluation and evidence-led crime reduction policy and practice (2013) (32)
Sherman vs Sherman (2009) (31)
Community policing and problem solving (2004) (31)
Britpop II: Problem-oriented Policing in Practice (1998) (31)
Forensic science in UK policing: strategies, tactics and effectiveness (2009) (31)
The investigation of high volume crime (2007) (31)
Demonstration, Exemplification, Duplication and Replication in Evaluation Research (1996) (30)
Developing Crime Reduction Plans: Some Examples from the Reducing Burglary Initiative (2001) (29)
Debates on the role of experimentation (2000) (29)
Do burglar alarms increase burglary risk? A counter-intuitive finding and possible explanations (2015) (28)
The Reasoning Criminologist (2012) (27)
Measuring the resilience of criminogenic ecosystems to global disruption: A case-study of COVID-19 in China (2020) (27)
Domestic burglary drop and the security hypothesis (2017) (27)
Viewpoints: Editorial: Getting Research into Practice (2000) (26)
Improving problem-oriented policing: The need for a new model? (2011) (26)
Business as Usual: An Evaluation of the Small Business and Crime Initiative (1998) (25)
Factors influencing police performance in the investigation of volume crimes in England and Wales (2009) (25)
Problem-oriented policing and partnerships: Implementing an evidence based approach to crime reduction (2006) (25)
Problem-solving street crime: practical lessons from the street crime initiative (2004) (24)
Whys and wherefores in evaluating the effectiveness of CCTV (1997) (23)
What is crime science? (2018) (23)
Evaluation for crime prevention (2002) (23)
A systematic review of tagging as a method to reduce theft in retail environments (2017) (23)
Policing Anti-Social Behaviour: Constraints, Dilemmas and Opportunities (2007) (21)
On police and university collaborations: a problem-oriented policing case study (2012) (21)
Evaluating the effectiveness of CCTV schemes (1998) (21)
Problem-oriented Policing and Partnerships (2006) (21)
Practical lessons for involving the community in crime and disorder problem-solving (2005) (20)
The social construction of ‘dowry deaths’ (2014) (19)
Knowing and doing: guidance and good practice in crime prevention (2006) (18)
Introduction: thinking realistically about crime prevention (2005) (17)
Health visitors and child protection: conflict, contradictions and ethical dilemmas. (1989) (17)
Getting the Grease to the Squeak: Research Lessons for Prevention (1998) (17)
The Football ‘Hotspot’ Matrix (2014) (17)
Travel-to-Crime: Homing in on the Victim (2007) (17)
Homicide and Organized Crime in England (2013) (17)
What's crucial in evaluation research: a reply to Bennett (1996) (16)
Spatial displacement and diffusion of crime control benefits revisited: new evidence on why crime doesn’t just move around the corner (2013) (16)
Fly-tipping: Causes, Incentives and Solutions (2006) (16)
Football pollution: an investigation of spatial and temporal patterns of crime in and around stadia in England (2018) (16)
Re-evaluation: rethinking research on corrections and crime (1992) (16)
Funding and implementing crime reduction initiatives (2002) (16)
Economic Analysis and Efficiency in Policing, Criminal Justice and Crime Reduction: What Works? (2016) (16)
A qualitative study of the background and in-hospital medicolegal response to female burn injuries in India (2014) (16)
Crime prevention in Britain, 1975-2010: breaking out, breaking in and breaking down (2002) (16)
Linking situational crime prevention and focused deterrence strategies (2013) (15)
Cook-Book Methods and Disastrous Recipes: A Rejoinder to Farrington (1998) (15)
Realist evaluation at 25: Cumulating knowledge, advancing debates and innovating methods (2016) (14)
Crime, Inequality, and Change in England and Wales (2012) (13)
Situational Prevention of Organised Crime (2010) (12)
Experimentation and Criminal Justice Policies in the United Kingdom (2000) (12)
The evaluation jungle (2000) (12)
The why, what, when and how of evidence-based policing (2017) (12)
Popper, positivism and ethnomethodology (1980) (11)
Choosing and Using Statistical Sources in Criminology: What Can the Crime Survey for England and Wales Tell Us? (2016) (11)
‘Think Global Act Local’: a place-based approach to sexual abuse prevention (2015) (11)
Why the crime drop? Why crime rates fall and why they don’t (2014) (11)
EDITORS' INTRODUCTION: SEEING AND BEING SEEN TO PREVENT CRIME (2006) (11)
Crime Reduction: A Quarter Century Review (2005) (10)
Crime prevention and system design (2005) (10)
Crime prevention in Britain, 1975-2010 (2001) (10)
An evaluation of Football Banning Orders in Scotland (2011) (10)
the Crime Drop (2015) (10)
Personal security alarms for the prevention of assaults against healthcare staff (2017) (10)
Endemic Sexual Violence and Abuse: Contexts and Dispositions (2015) (10)
EMMIE and engineering: What works as evidence to improve decisions? (2016) (10)
Crime Reduction: Responsibility, Regulation and Research (2012) (10)
Signature dish: Triangulation from data signatures to examine the role of security in falling crime (2016) (10)
An overview of attrition patterns (2005) (10)
Routine Activities and Opportunity Theory (2015) (9)
Further improving reporting in crime and justice: an addendum to Perry, Weisburd and Hewitt (2010) (2012) (9)
Popper, Historicism and Emergence (1982) (9)
Whither (European) evaluation methodology? (1995) (9)
Police investigations: discretion denied yet undeniably exercised (2015) (9)
The Past, Present and Future of POP (2012) (8)
Hotspotting and Football Violence: Current Statistics and Implications for Prevention (2017) (8)
Evaluation in Criminal Justice (2006) (8)
Towards a Comprehensive Research Plan on Opportunity Theory and the Crime Falls (2012) (8)
Evolutionary Psychology and Fear of Crime (2008) (8)
Gangs, shootings and violent incidents in Manchester : developing a crime reduction strategy (2002) (8)
Are Repeatedly Extorted Businesses Different? A Multilevel Hurdle Model of Extortion Victimization (2020) (8)
Explaining and sustaining the crime drop in industrialised countries (2010) (8)
Understanding and preventing lead theft from churches: A script analysis (2014) (8)
On being realistic about reducing the prevalence and impacts of youth sexual violence and abuse in two Australian Indigenous communities (2014) (8)
The cross-national crime and repeat victimisation trend for main crime categories: multilevel modelling of the International Crime Victims Survey (2010) (8)
From strategy to action: the development and implementation of problem-oriented projects (2003) (7)
Towards Checklists to Reduce Common Sources of Problem-Solving Failure (2012) (7)
Inter-Agency Conflict in Child Abuse Work—Reducing Tensions between Social Workers and Health Visitors (1990) (7)
Income-disparities of burglary risk and security availability over time (2011) (7)
Once a Victim, Always A Victim? A Study of How Victimisation Patterns may Change over Time (2001) (7)
Does situational crime prevention require a rational offender (2017) (7)
How Strong is the Evidence-Base for Crime Reduction Professionals? (2020) (7)
The Development of Community Policing in England: Networks, Knowledge and Neighbourhoods (2008) (6)
Routledge Handbook of Crime Science (2018) (6)
Theories for situational and environmental crime prevention (2014) (6)
Commercial Crime, Crime Prevention and Community Safety: A Study of Three Streets in Camden, North London (1998) (6)
The Impact of High Visibility Patrol on Personal Robbery Hot Spots (2004) (6)
Protocol for Work Package 1: Identifying Existing Systematic Reviews of Crime Reduction (2014) (6)
Which Security Devices Reduce Burglary (2018) (6)
The rediscovery of learning: crime prevention and scientific realism (2002) (6)
Realistic evaluation [Encyclopaedia entry] (2004) (5)
INTRODUCTION : EVALUATION FOR CRIME PREVENTION (2006) (5)
Technology for Crime and Crime Prevention: A Supply Side Analysis (2017) (5)
Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) (2016) (5)
Business views of organised crime (2008) (5)
Elegant security: Concept, evidence and implications (2020) (5)
Repeal calls for service and problem-oriented policing (1999) (5)
Privatizing Crime Control (2018) (5)
Intelligence-led policing and the disruption of organized crime: motifs, methods and morals (2016) (5)
Middle-Range Radical Realism for Crime Prevention (2016) (5)
Engineering a safer society (2016) (5)
Community, Security and Distributive Justice (2011) (4)
Born to Fail? Policing, Reform and Neighbourhood Problem Solving (2009) (4)
Crime and coronavirus: social distancing, lockdown, and the mobility elasticity of crime (2020) (4)
A Short History of the England and Wales National Burglary Security Initiatives (2018) (4)
Problem-Oriented Policing in England and Wales 2019 (2020) (4)
Realistic evaluation and disciplinary knowledge: applications from the field of criminology (2010) (4)
How (and How Not) to Design Research to Inform Policy-making (1996) (4)
Biting the bullet: Gun crime in Greater Nottingham (2004) (4)
Asking questions in social research (1998) (4)
Evaluation evidence for evidence-based policing (2019) (3)
Designing systems against crime : Introducing leaky systems 1 (2017) (3)
Can Public Leadership be Evaluated (2010) (3)
Doing quantitative criminological research: the crime drop (2016) (3)
Exploring the links between homicide and organised crime (2011) (3)
Theory for crime prevention (2017) (3)
Understanding and Preventing Lead Theft from Churches (2014) (3)
Doing Quantitative Data Analysis in Criminological Research (2018) (3)
Making it Happen from the Centre: Managing for the Regional Delivery of Local Crime Reduction Initiatives (2004) (3)
Violence and the crime drop (2020) (3)
Infographic: How to maximise your golf performance (2016) (3)
Towards a Theory of Tagging in Retail Environments (2018) (3)
What's the 'what' in 'what works'? (2009) (3)
Using crackdowns constructively in crime reduction (2013) (3)
Book Review: The Logic of Laboratory Life (1981) (3)
Go forth and experiment (2004) (3)
Situational Crime Prevention and Offender Decision Making (2017) (2)
An apt sociology for polytechnics (1976) (2)
Prevention and forensic science : How forensic evidence supports prevention (2017) (2)
EMMIE and the What Works Centre for Crime Reduction (2021) (2)
Asking the right questions in criminal justice evaluations (2005) (2)
Victimization surveys in environmental criminology (2018) (2)
Uses and abuses of evidence in crime prevention (2002) (2)
How Strong is the Evidence-Base for Crime Reduction End Users? (2020) (2)
Using situational crime prevention in small areas (2004) (2)
What caused the decline in child arrests in England and Wales: The Howard League’s programme or something else? (2019) (2)
The role of research and analysis: lessons from the crime reduction programme (2003) (2)
Seeing off the danger (1995) (2)
Book review: Evidence-Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing It Better (2013) (2)
Problem-oriented policing in England and Wales: barriers and facilitators (2021) (2)
Investing to deliver : reviewing the implementation of the UK Crime Reduction Pro g r a m m e (2005) (2)
The Middle-Range Methodology ofRealist Evaluation Forty years with Realist Ray and theirunintended consequences, an affectionate and unfinished middle-rangestory (2018) (2)
INTRODUCTION : ANALYSIS FOR CRIME PREVENTION (2002) (2)
Future directions for crime science (2018) (1)
Forensic science in UK policing (2009) (1)
The role of security in causing drops in domestic burglary (2018) (1)
Realist Evaluation Realist Evaluation (2007) (1)
The First Local Lockdown (2020) (1)
Attraction and Generation Offenses around Stadiums : A Natural Experiment on Crime (2014) (1)
There is Nothing So Practical As a Good Theory: Teacher–learner relationships in applied research for policing (2014) (1)
The diffusion of police innovation: A case study of problem-oriented policing in England and Wales (2022) (1)
Evaluation Research, Quantitative (2020) (1)
The role of analysis: lessons from the crime reduction programme (2003) (1)
Debates on the role of experimentation in assessing what works (2000) (1)
Modernisation and identity in the Third World (1979) (1)
Surveillance schools: Security, discipline and control in contemporary education (2016) (1)
Strategies and Tactics: Contexts and Mechanisms — The Essence of Effective Prevention (2005) (1)
POPPER AND PRESCRIPTIVE METHODOLOGY (1993) (1)
Developing a knowledge base for crime prevention: lessons learned from the British experience (2018) (1)
Inter agency conflict in child abudr (1990) (1)
Rational Scientific Development (1982) (1)
Repeat Offenders (2019) (1)
On the association between routine activities and the decline in stranger and acquaintance violence. (2015) (1)
Introduction: the concepts, implementation and outcomes of problem-oriented policing in the UK and the US (2003) (1)
Developing a knowledge base for crime prevention: lessons learned from the British experience (2018) (1)
‘Think Global Act Local’: a place-based approach to sexual abuse prevention (2015) (1)
Police perceptions of problem-oriented policing and evidence-based policing: evidence from England and Wales (2022) (1)
Do burglar alarms increase burglary risk? A counter-intuitive finding and possible explanations (2015) (1)
Implementing and sustaining problem-oriented policing: A guide (2020) (1)
Periodization, Holism and Historicism: A Reply to Jacobs (1984) (1)
Are Repeatedly Extorted Businesses Different? A Multilevel Hurdle Model of Extortion Victimization (2020) (0)
Domestic burglary drop and the security hypothesis (2017) (0)
Whither evaluation methodology (1995) (0)
Repeat Extortion Victimisation Of Mexican Businesses (2015) (0)
Further improving reporting in crime and justice: an addendum to Perry, Weisburd and Hewitt (2010) (2011) (0)
Successful police problem-solving: A practice guide (2020) (0)
Policing : Strategies , Tactics and Effectiveness (2010) (0)
The problems with POP (2002) (0)
Community, Crime and Disorder: Safety and Regeneration in Urban Neighbourhoods. By Lynn Hancock (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. vii + 211 pp. £45.00 hb) (2002) (0)
Improving problem-oriented policing (2011) (0)
Disciplinary contributions to crime science (2018) (0)
Exploring the link between organized crime groups and homicide in England ACCEPTED FOR HOMICIDE STUDIES (2012) (0)
Health visiting and child protection: conflict, contradiction and ethical dilemmas (1989) (0)
Auditing Crime: Guidance for Local Partnerships (1998) (0)
Book Reviews : Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact. BY LUDWIK FLECK. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. Pp. xxvii + 203. $6.95 paper (1985) (0)
Football pollution: an investigation of spatial and temporal patterns of crime in and around stadia in England (2017) (0)
A Realistic Agenda for Research and Regulation Relating to Crime Prevention (2019) (0)
Analysis for intervention (2013) (0)
Crime science in action (2018) (0)
Debuts and legacies: the crime drop and the role of adolescence-limited and persistent offending (2015) (0)
Surveillance schools: Security, discipline and control in contemporary education (2014) (0)
Economic Analysis and Public Policy (2016) (0)
Introducing EMMIE: an evidence rating scale to encourage mixed-method crime prevention synthesis reviews (2015) (0)
Designing systems against crime (2017) (0)
Book Review: Tim Newburn and Stephanie Hayman Policing, Surveillance and Social Control Cullompton, Devon: Willan, 2002. 198 pp. (incl. index). £30.00 ISBN 1—903240—50—6 (hbk) (2002) (0)
Police practitioner views on the challenges of analysing and responding to knife crime (2023) (0)
The Football âHotspotâ Matrix (2014) (0)
Towards a comprehensive research plan on opportunity theory and crime falls (2012) (0)
Independence and impact: a typology of researcher-user relationships for policing and crime prevention (2022) (0)
Conclusions: reducing Burglary – summing Up (2018) (0)
Extensions to Economic Analysis (2016) (0)
Reducing burglary: Summing up (2019) (0)
Spatial distribution of victimization (2017) (0)
Personal security alarms for the prevention of assaults against healthcare staff (2017) (0)
Conceptual Foundation of Economic Analysis (EA) (2016) (0)
Chasing More Ghosts: Perceptions in a British City (2006) (0)
Understanding crime, liberalism, and science (2003) (0)
Review of Tim Newburn and Stephanie Hayman, 'Policing, surveillance and social control.' (2002) (0)
Institutional Repository Crime , inequality and change in England and Wales (2017) (0)
Using crackdowns constructively (2004) (0)
Book Reviews : The Philosophy of Popper. BY T. E. BURKE. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1983. Pp. ix + 222. £17.50 (cloth), £7.50 (paper (1987) (0)
A systematic review of tagging as a method to reduce theft in retail environments (2017) (0)
Evidence-based policing: New perspectives of cooperation between practice, education and police science (2015) (0)
20Public Leadership be Evaluated (2010) (0)
What caused the decline in child arrests in England and Wales: The Howard League’s programme or something else? (2019) (0)
The Costing Tool (2016) (0)
Review essay/understanding crime, liberalism, and science (2003) (0)
Accidental Drownings of Migrant Labourers in Morecambe Bay, England 1 (2020) (0)
Evolution, crime science and terrorism: The case of Provisional IRA Weaponry (2019) (0)
Illegal waste fly-tipping in the Covid-19 pandemic: enhanced compliance, temporal displacement, and urban–rural variation (2022) (0)
REALISTIC EVALUATION Ray Pawson and (0)
A Scale for Rating Economic Analyses (2016) (0)
Dictionary entries on 'Field Experiments', 'Quasi Experiments' and 'Evaluation Research' (2006) (0)
Explaining and Sustaining the International Crime Drops (2009) (0)
Remembering Herman Goldstein, 1931–2020 (2020) (0)
Trends in violence victimization in the England and Wales. (2016) (0)
The effectiveness of burglary security devices (2017) (0)
Sociology (2018) (0)
Guidance and good practice in crime prevention (2006) (0)
London Crime and Disorder Audit (2004) (0)
Book reviews : The Politics of Crime Control Kevin Stenson and David Cowell (eds) Sage, London, 1991, 226pp, £10.95 pbk, £30.00 hbk (1993) (0)

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